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Lobster Issue

[…] war did not scuttle détente, it nevertheless brought the United States closer to a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis. The American military airlift to Israel, moreover, had led Arab oil producers to embargo oil shipments to the United States and some Western European countries, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] right-wing groups: the Paneuropean Union, the On which see for example . 74 Drones are merely remotely controlled, lightweight fighter-bombers, carrying small payloads. 75 76 A Hellfire missile costs upwards of $100,000. 77 A partial biography is at . 27 bases.74 Teacher began this in an essay in Lobster 17 (’Brian Crozier, the Pinay […]

Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below by Paul Ozorak

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] appendices of lists that Cold War anoraks will find of interest: lists of nuclear storage sites in Russia, ‘Earth-covered Ammunition Bunkers in the United Kingdom’ and Nike missile launch sites; while Appendix L is ‘Examples of Cover Organisations throughout the World’ and details about forty instances. Or how about, Appendix N, ‘East German Ministry […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 102 or 103 33 Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to cover the subject through many subsequent […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] sectors, with factories in the east of Ukraine supplying Russia with hardware such as helicopter engines (produced in Zaporizhia), ICBMs (designed and made in Dnepropetrovsk), and a missile guidance system (from Kharkiv).35 A Ukrainian pivot to the West would not only deprive Russia of a key market, it would threaten its links with what […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 85 or 86 28 Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to cover the subject through many subsequent […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 72 or 73 25 contact with Colin Wallace. Because the scandal has never been properly examined officially, the story keeps cropping-up. The latest instalment is […]

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