1947–1991 tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies

China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.

Hygiene measures in civil defence against radioactive, chemical and biological warfare. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.

Cold War anthropology : the CIA, the Pentagon, and the growth of dual use anthropology / David H. Price.

246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm

Attack warning red! : how Britain prepared for nuclear war / Julie McDowall.

Un-American : W.E.B. Du Bois and the century of world revolution / Bill V Mullen.

xxiv, 307 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Nervous systems : brain science in the early Cold War / Andreas Killen.

The global Cold War : third world interventions and the making of our times / Odd Arne Westad.

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Cold War anthropology : the CIA, the Pentagon, and the growth of dual use anthropology / David H. Price.

Attack warning red! : how Britain prepared for nuclear war / Julie McDowall.

Un-American : W.E.B. Du Bois and the century of world revolution / Bill V Mullen.

Nervous systems : brain science in the early Cold War / Andreas Killen.

The global Cold War : third world interventions and the making of our times / Odd Arne Westad.

Cold War

Images from the collections

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Cold War anthropology : the CIA, the Pentagon, and the growth of dual use anthropology / David H. Price.

Attack warning red! : how Britain prepared for nuclear war / Julie McDowall.

Un-American : W.E.B. Du Bois and the century of world revolution / Bill V Mullen.

Nervous systems : brain science in the early Cold War / Andreas Killen.

The global Cold War : third world interventions and the making of our times / Odd Arne Westad.

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