Experience the Cold War like never before with Cold War Conversations — an award-winning podcast recommended by The New York Times. Each week, host Ian Sanders brings you raw, firsthand accounts from the people who lived through one of history’s most tense and transformative eras — soldiers, spies, civilians, and more. These aren’t stories from textbooks. They’re unfiltered voices from the frontlines of history — emotional, gripping, and deeply human. This is Cold War history, told from the inside out. We cover subjects such as spies, spying, the Iron Curtain, nuclear weapons, warfare, tanks, jet aircraft, fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, aviation, culture, and politics. We also cover personalities such as Fidel Castro, JFK, Ronald Reagan, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Konstantin Chernenko, Margaret Thatcher, John F. Kennedy, Josef Stalin, Richard Nixon, Lech Walesa, General Jaruzelski, Nicolae Ceaușescu. Other subjects include Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, West Berlin, East Berlin, Cuban missile Crisis, Berlin Airlift, Bay of Pigs, SALT, Perestroika, Space Race, superpower, USSR, Soviet Union, DDR, GDR, East Germany, SDI, Vietnam War, Korean War, Solidarność, Fall of the Wall, Berliner Mauer, Trabant, Communist, Capitalist, Able Archer, KGB, Stasi, STB, SB, Securitate, CIA, NSA, MI5, MI6, Berlin Wall, escape, defection, Cuba, Albania, football, sport, Bulgaria, Soviet Union, Poland, China, Taiwan, Austria, West Germany, Solidarity, espionage, HUMINT, SIGINT, OSINT, IMINT, GEOINT, RAF, USAF, British Army, US Army, Red Army, Soviet Army, Afghanistan, NVA, East German Army, KAL007, T-72, T-64, Chieftain, M60 The podcast is for military veterans, school teachers, university lecturers, students and those interested in Cold War history, museums, bunkers, weapons, AFVs, wargamers, planes, A Level, GCSE students studying Superpower Relations and the Cold War.

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Able Archer - The military exercise that almost started World War 3 - a look in the archives (269) 2022-12-31
In conversation with 7 BRIXMIS veterans - Part 1 (268) 2022-12-28
Home Bases: Memories & Stories of US Military Bases in the UK (267) 2022-12-24
Cold War Chieftain tank deployment at the East German Border (266) 2022-12-17
Crewing the Cold War Chieftain tank (265) 2022-12-10
How East Germany doped its athletes (264) 2022-12-03
The building of the Berlin Wall (263) 2022-11-26
Guarding Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy Führer (262) 2022-11-19
From Cold War military drone development, to the deployment and command of the nuclear armed Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) in Europe (261) 2022-11-12
Nuclear missile launch control and Mission Control for the NASA Apollo Moon Missions (260) 2022-11-05
Britain's 1980s Cold War Dads Army/Home Guard - The Home Service Force 2022-10-28
An aircraft hijack to escape from the Soviet Union (258) 2022-10-21
Defending RAF Gatow - Britain's airbase in Cold War Berlin (257) 2022-10-14
Guarding Britain's nuclear weapons and RAF Akrotiri during the Cold War (256) 2022-10-07
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis with Sir Max Hastings (255) 2022-09-30
“Houston, we’ve had a problem” interview with Fred Haise, Apollo 13 astronaut (254) 2022-09-23
An 18 year old US Military Policeman in Cold War West Berlin (253) 2022-09-16
A trip across Central Europe on a East German MZ motorbike (252) 2022-09-09
Imprisoned in a Soviet Military gaol - a BRIXMIS officer's diary Pt 2 (251) 2022-09-02
Arrested 11 times, plus 3 shooting incidents - a BRIXMIS officer's diary Pt 1 (250) 2022-08-26
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