Harvard intelligence expert Calder Walton discusses spy networks post-Cold War and the new methods, like disinformation and cyberwarfare, that are being deployed.
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Van Cliburn’s Cold War Victory
Stuart Isacoff takes us back to 1958 to relive Van Cliburn’s stunning victory at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow.
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Containing Our Nuclear Waste
Harvard professors Robb Moss and Peter Galison join us to talk about the effort to contain radioactive waste, the subject of their Independent Lens documentary “Containment.”
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Reviewing Reagan
Ronald Reagan guided the U.S. through the last days of the Cold War and ushered in a new breed of conservatism that still reverberates today. We’ll take inventory of his legacy this hour with biographer H.W. Brands.
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Berlin 1961
Hour 2: Where did the Cold War almost become a real war? We’ll revisit the rise of the Berlin Wall and the tense beginning of a decades-long U.S./Soviet conflict this hour with Frederick Kempe, journalist and president and CEO of the Atlantic Council. His new book is “Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth” (Putnam, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/1cce2fab-1fc8-4c44-8a32-14429281bac1/KERA_Think_06-13-11_HR_2.mp3
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