The Cold War: Prelude To The Present Podcast
1) We Choose to Go to the Moon | Part 1
Take a front seat ride in the Apollo Lunar Module as it makes its historic descent and avoids a near catastrophe unfolding behind the scenes. Then travel back to a time before the Space Race, to the A...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) A New Podcast from Bill Whittle: America's Forgotten Heroes
Get ready to unpack the exciting untold history of heroes who saved America in some of its darkest hours. Subscribe NOW to America’s Forgotten Heroes on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and everywhere you list...Show More
3) A Pizza Hut Parade | Part 13
Nixon goes to China and in a masterstroke of diplomacy turns a two-power Cold War into three-power triangular diplomacy, giving the United States the leverage for DĂ©tente, a chance for a soft landing ...Show More
4) The Liberators | Part 12
A change of commanders comes too late to reverse the situation in Southeast Asia as Richard Nixon's program of 'Vietnamization' eases America out of its worst-directed war. But long before the last Am...Show More
5) From The Jaws Of Defeat | Part 11
Mired not only in the jungles of Southeast Asia but, worse, mired in outdated, rigid doctrine, fossilized tactics, and declining morale, a light can be made out in the middle of America's darkest nigh...Show More
6) Welcome To The Suck | Part 10
You stepped out of a big, air-conditioned silver bird, out into the kind of heat, sunlight and humidity that even Americans raised in the Deep South could not believe. You would wander around, wonderi...Show More
7) Cloaks and Daggers | Part 9
With the mechanisms of apocalypse firmly in place, both sides accelerate their efforts to determine the actual capabilities of the other. No detail is too insignificant: attempts are made to recover S...Show More
8) To The Precipice | Part 8
Following the Bay of Pigs disaster, and a second crisis in Europe resulting in the deadly grey reality of the Berlin Wall, an over-confident Nikita Khrushchev decides to further test what the Soviets ...Show More
9) Playa Giron | Part 7
He had grown up a rich kid, believe it or not: the illegitimate son of a millionaire planter and a servant girl half his age. He was named "Truth," he was handsome and rugged, a 6'3" charismatic giant...Show More
10) We Like Ike | Part 6
In the years after World War II, Dwight David Eisenhower was arguably the most popular man on the planet. Ike’s prestige was so immense that in 1948, President Harry S Truman offered him the top slot ...Show More