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A Bipolar World - The Cold War - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook46.html#The%20Cold%20War
Provides links to documents on the origins of the Cold War, the Berlin Crises, the Cuban Crises, periods of East-West detente, and information on Cold War leaders.

A Secret Landscape - http://coldwar-c4i.net/
National-security Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) infrastructure. Focuses on ad hoc C4I sites.

Cold War - http://www.angelfire.com/bc3/coldwar/
Includes history and psychological examinations of this period.

Cold War International History Project - http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home
Hosts hundreds of previously inaccessible documents dealing with the Cold War.

Cold War Museum - http://www.coldwar.org
Presents essay-like articles, commenting selected events of the Cold War in a narrative, chronological way, accessible through a timeline. Also photo presentations in a museum-like way.

Cold War Project - http://www.videofact.com/coldwar.htm
A miscellaneous collection of information, documents and photographs. Produced by Videofact

Cold War: Postwar Estrangement - http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html
A historical exhibit of contentious Soviet-American relations before and during the Cold War. Includes links to Russian language documents relating the Soviet views of the Cold War.

Disturbed Ground: Journeys Along the Remnants of the Iron Curtain - http://www.archive.org/details/Disturbed_Ground_Journeys_along_the_remnants_of_the_Iron_Curtain_by_EronWitzel
The story of the divide told through an exploration of the 800-mile scar it left behind by Eron Witzel.

Grenzer.com - http://www.grenzer.com/
A historical survey of East German and US border operations along the Iron Curtain from 1945-1989. Includes chronology, technology and operations, review of units and guards, and submitted war stories.

Harvard Project on Cold War Studies (HPCWS) - http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/
Features declassified documents, information about The Journal of Cold War Studies, a digital multimedia archive, and related links.

Instruments of Statecraft - http://www.statecraft.org/
Study of U.S. guerilla warfare, counter insurgency, and counter terrorism, from 1940 to 1990.

Krieghan's Cold War Presentation - http://www.angelfire.com/il/coldwar/Cldwr.html
History of the Cold War with information and slide show of the major players and the principal arenas of the Cold War. Includes a chronology of major events and interviews with people who lived through the events.

Notes on Nationalism - http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/nationalism.html
An essay by George Orwell in 1945.

Political Writings of George Orwell - http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/
Essays, newspaper columns, letters and editorials from 1943 - 1947.

Politics and the English Language - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
An essay by George Orwell in 1946.

Soviet Archives: Entrance Room - http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/entrance.html
An online exhibit on how Soviet-American relations were conducted between the two governments and the two societies. Also discusses inner workings of the Soviet system of government.

Stanislav Petrov Averts a Worldwide Nuclear War - Bright Star Sound - http://www.brightstarsound.com
The story of Stanislav Petrov, a Russian officer whose refusal to launch a nuclear strike, in response to a false report of a US attack, averted a nuclear war in 1983.

Thaw in the Cold War: Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Gettysburg - http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/29ike/29ike.htm
Information on a 1959 Soviet-American summit and how President Eisenhower's brand of diplomacy led to a temporary easing of Cold War tensions. Includes documents from the meeting, a small image gallery, and links to further sources.

The Cold War - http://www.hpwt.de/Kalterkriege.htm
A summary of the Cold War.

The Diefenbunker - Canada's Cold War Museum - http://www.diefenbunker.ca
The Diefenbunker was built in 1959-61 to house Canadian leaders during a nuclear attack but now serves as Canada's Cold War Museum. Includes Diefenbunker history, facts, virtual tour, and trivia.

The Flying Crowbar - http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html
At the dawn of the atomic age, scientists began work on what might have been the nastiest weapon ever conceived.

The National Archives Learning Curve | Cold War - http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/
Narrative answers to the most common questions of the Cold War, why did it start, who started it; how the common believes are reflected in what really happened.

War of Ideas: A History of the Cold War - http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/mainpg.htm
Includes biographies of the principal Cold Warriors in the West and East, detailed reports on the different facets of the Cold War, a chronology of major Cold War events, and links to external resources. Also has a Cold War game and a trivia section.

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