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Part I: The Beginnings of the Cold War

• The Beginnings of the Cold War
• Operation Crossroads
• The Soviet Atomic Bomb

Part II: Under the Thermonuclear Shadow

• The Hydrogen Bomb
• The MIKE Test
• The BRAVO Test
• The Soviet Response
• Oppenheimer's Fall
• Atomic Espionage

Part III: The Nuclear Club Grows

• Britain Goes Nuclear
• France Joins the Club
• Chinese Nuclear Weapons

Part IV: At the Brink

• Cuban Missile Crisis

Part V: Hope & Fear

• Limited Test Ban Treaty
• Nuclear Deterrence
• Easing The Tensions
• The "Peaceful" Explosion
• The Arms Race Resumes

Part VI: Nuclear Dangers

• Three Mile Island
• Reagan's Star Wars
• Chernobyl

Part VII: The End of the Cold War

• The End of the Cold War
• The New Nuclear Nations
• Nations on the Threshold
• Controlling the Atom
• National Missile Defense
• The Nuclear Legacy

This project is part of the National Science Digital Library and was funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation Grant 0434253