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Former Soviet Colonel Stanislav Petrov at his home in 2004.
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The Soviet soldier who saved the world: how did Stanislav Petrov prevent nuclear Armageddon?

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Oleg Gordievsky: the double agent who changed the course of the Cold War

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Oppenheimer: the real history of the ‘father of the atomic bomb’

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Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, seen in 1975, would have been the leading candidate to be the first person to step on the Moon had the Soviets landed before the US (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)
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Construction of the Berlin Wall begins at Ebertstrasse. The barrier would divide the city for 28 years (Photo by von der Becke/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
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Q&A Why did NORAD begin tracking Santa Claus in the Cold War?

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