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Sometimes history replays itself – in strange and eerie ways. Our job is to remember, prepare for what may come, so we do not repeat what is avoidable, regrettable, tragic. Take the Venona Project. If ...

The U.S. National Security Agency waited almost 50 years before releasing the first batch of Soviet cables decrypted by the Venona project, most of which were broken between 1947 and 1952. In December ...

In 1995, the U.S. National Security Agency broke a half century of silence by releasing translations of Soviet cables decrypted back in the 1940s by the Venona Project. Venona was a top-secret U.S.

A newly graduated home economics teacher was dying of boredom in small town in rural southern Virginia when a chance meeting set her on a path that would put her in the front line of the Cold War ...

Richard A. Leibler, a National Security Agency mathematician whose code-breaking work helped lead to the exposure and arrest of Soviet agents who spied on the United States during the height of the ...

Christopher Nolan’s film on Robert Oppenheimer, “Father of the American Atom Bomb” starring Cillian Murphy in the lead role is a great hit. On July 16, 1945, when Oppenheimer watched the Trinity Test, ...

I found it surprising, and profoundly distressing, that none of the accomplished authors and reviewers of the four books on space travel (Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk, Elliot Ackerman on Richard ...

Traitors? Martyrs? Just what were the Rosenbergs? After more than 70 years, we might finally have found out. Like Benedict Arnold, Wyatt Earp, or Davy Crockett before them, the names Julius and Ethel ...