Report: 50 Years with the Cold War
June 3rd and 4th 1999 museum organized a conference with the
title ”50 Years with the Cold War”. Now all the lectures are edited to
articles and published.
The book consists of fifteen
essays, based on the
lectures given at the
conference in Bodø, June
1999. It was the 3rd
conference on Cold War
topics which the Aviation
Museum hosted. The former
being held in 1995 and
1996. This conference was
somewhat special, though,
it being organized on the
occasion of the 50th
anniversary of the NATO
alliance.
The themes of the essays
range from the origins of
the Cold War in general, to
why it ended; from Norway
as an intelligence ally to the
U2 spy-plane and satellites;
from NATO’s nuclear
strategy in the Northern
Areas to the making of the Norwegian Air Force.
The writers include, among others, Geir Lundestad, Constantine
Pleshakov, James Hershberg and Dean C. Allard.
The book is 192 pages long and costs NOK 149,- (app. US$ 20,-). It
can be bought via our museum store:
Phone: (+47) 75 50 78 50
Email: butikk@luftfart.museum.no
Fax: (+47) 75 50 78 51
Post: The Shop, Norwegian Aviation Museum, PO Box 1124, N-8001
Bodø, Norway
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