A New Cold War?: Neil Sheehan

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Partner:: Commonwealth Club
Location:: The Commonwealth Club of California
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 10.12.09
Speakers:: Robert Rosenthal,; Neil Sheehan
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Summary: Sheehan will explain the notion that we've gone from a Cold War with the former Soviet Union to what he terms a "new Cold War" with countries like North Korea and Iran.

He will discuss in detail how close the U.S. and Soviet Union came to nuclear annihilation and how lessons learned from the Cold War apply to today's threats, including those from terrorists.

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Robert Rosenthal

Robert Rosenthal is the Executive Director of the Center for Investigative Reporting.

An award-winning journalist with nearly 40 years of experience, Rosenthal has worked for some of the most respected newspapers in the country, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer and, most recently, the San Francisco Chronicle.

As a reporter, his awards include the Overseas Press Club Award for magazine writing, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished foreign correspondence, and the National Association of Black Journalists Award for Third World Reporting.

Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan is a former correspondent for The New York Times. Sheehan is also a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of A Fiery Peace in a Cold War.

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01.: Introduction

01 min 49 sec

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02.: Discovery of Bernard Schriever

03 min 05 sec

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03.: Build-up of Nuclear Missiles to Match Soviets

04 min 38 sec

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04.: General LeMay's Obsession with Nuclear Bomber Aircraft

01 min 34 sec

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05.: Schriever's Early Life and Career in Military

05 min 15 sec

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06.: Beginning of the ICBM Program

05 min 59 sec

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07.: Communist Spies in Los Alamos Lab

03 min 01 sec

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08.: Briefing with President Eisenhower

05 min 29 sec

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09.: Schriever and Co. Heroes of the Cold War

03 min 18 sec

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10.: Q1: Potential Use of Nuclear Weapons Today

02 min 51 sec

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11.: Q2: Pakistan and India

01 min 22 sec

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12.: Q3: Ongoing Espionage

01 min 46 sec

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13.: Q4: Realizing Vietnam Was a Lost War

04 min 31 sec

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14.: Q5: Lessons to Apply to Afghanistan

01 min 10 sec

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15.: Q6: New Form of Cold War

01 min 07 sec

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16.: Q7: Continuation of Obsolete Military Programs

02 min 12 sec

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17.: Q8: Danger of an Itchy Trigger Finger

06 min 11 sec

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18.: Q9: Mutually Assured Destruction

00 min 28 sec

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19.: Q10: Legacy of the Pentagon Papers

02 min 42 sec

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20.: Q11: Classified Top Secret for Political Reasons

02 min 58 sec

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21.: Q12: Adversarial Relationship Between Press and Government

02 min 35 sec

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22.: Q13: No More Historical Investigations

00 min 49 sec

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Is Military Weaponry Used as 'Milfare' to Create Jobs?

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Did Myths Blind Americans to 'Mistake' of Vietnam?

03 min 40 sec

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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

Cold War: Open yet restricted rivalry and hostility that developed after World War II between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The U.S. and Britain, alarmed by the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, feared the expansion of Soviet power and communism in Western Europe and elsewhere. The Soviets were determined to maintain control of Eastern Europe, in part to safeguard against a possible renewed threat from Germany. The Cold War (the term was first used by Bernard Baruch during a congressional debate in 1947) was waged mainly on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. It was at its peak in 1948–53 with the Berlin blockade and airlift, the formation of NATO, the victory of the communists in the Chinese civil war, and the Korean War. Another intense stage occurred in 1958–62 with the Cuban missile crisis, which resulted in a weapons buildup by both sides. A period of détente in the 1970s was followed by renewed hostility. The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.; Cold War on britannica.com