The Soviets Would Have Used These 5 Weapons to Wage World War III nationalinterest.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalinterest.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
RT SCOOPS SIX TELLY AWARDS
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27 May 2021, 18:13 GMT+10
MOSCOW, MAY 27, 2021 - RT won six prizes at the annual Telly Awards, a major international TV and film production award. The judges recognized RT s animated project for children, documentary films by Russian activist journalist Anton Krasovsky and programs by RT Arabic.
Two documentaries produced as part of RT s .doc project shared gold in the category Online-Series-Documentary: one followed Lida Moniava, founder of the Lighthouse Charity Foundation for critically ill children, for a day, and the other presented the story of a Russian para-athlete, Dmitry Ignatov. In this category, RT s competitors were projects by Al Jazeera and the New Yorker, among others.
Red Menace: These Are the Soviet Weapons That Scared the World nationalinterest.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalinterest.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
George Washington, just 12 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Cold War was a uniquely dangerous period in human history. Vast ideological differences, large standing armies and nuclear weapons on hair triggers meant the end of civilization was an ever-present threat.
For much of the era, there was genuine fear that war between the West and the Soviet bloc might break out any time. Such fears pushed the rapid development of weapons to give each side an advantage should the Cold War suddenly turn hot. The result was not one but many arms races pursued concurrently, from infantry small arms to nuclear weapons.