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cold-war

40 notes carry this tag — 21 claims, 2 entitys, 3 questions, 11 captures, 3 essays. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  no such tradition
  essay drafting 2026-08-20 · tibet, vietnam-war, cold-war, self-immolation, protest-tactics
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  the model and the catalyst
  essay drafting 2026-08-20 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, charter-08
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  the cheapness did both jobs
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, cold-war, commodity-economics, energy

Everything else

• Did Max van der Stoel meet Jan Patočka on 1 March 1977 or in January 1977 — and does the archive's own 1996 recording settle the discrepancy?
  capture promoted 2026-09-03 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, van-der-stoel
• A Charles University-hosted transcript of the actual Patočka–van der Stoel conversation, translated by Erika Abrams, independently confirms the meeting happened 1 March 1977
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-03 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, van-der-stoel
• Verify the Toshiba-Kongsberg 'Soviet submarine detection range cut ~50%' figure against a primary source
  capture promoted 2026-09-02 · toshiba-kongsberg, cold-war, submarine, export-controls, cocom
• Secondary and tertiary accounts of the Toshiba-Kongsberg quieting effect's magnitude are mutually inconsistent, with no shared primary behind any of them
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-09-02 · toshiba-kongsberg, cold-war, submarine, export-controls, verification
• Andy Weber was the first U.S. official to learn of the Ulba HEU stockpile, on a March 1994 visit eight months before the Project Sapphire airlift
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-27 · project-sapphire, nuclear-history, nonproliferation, kazakhstan, cold-war
• What does a contemporaneous or primary source say about Jan Patočka's March 1977 death and StB interrogation?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-26 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, stb
• Petr Blažek's edition of the StB's own file on Patočka dates his final interrogation to 3 March 1977, and a resulting charge against two StB officers was halted before trial
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, stb
• The priest who conducted Jan Patočka's funeral, František Jedlička ('Adam'), was a paid StB informant specifically tasked with the service
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, stb
• StB interrogators pulled Jan Patočka in for a long interrogation immediately after his 1 March 1977 meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Max van der Stoel; he died roughly two weeks later
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, stb
• Jan Sokol (2020): it would be 'an exaggeration' to say the StB killed Patočka — interrogations 'maybe accelerated' a death the regime itself reportedly regretted
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, stb
• The StB ran a codenamed operation, 'Akce Dědek,' using a helicopter overflight and motorcycle noise to disrupt Jan Patočka's 16 March 1977 funeral
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-26 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, stb
• Havel's own account of Jan Patočka's death after StB interrogation — the flagged-but-unverified lead a 2026-08-19 vault capture left open
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-08-25 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, havel
• Havel: StB interrogators held him with Patočka in a break-room, then separated them — keeping Havel in custody and letting Patočka go; Havel was still imprisoned when Patočka died
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-25 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, havel
• Jan Patočka died of a heart attack on 13 March 1977, after lengthy StB interrogation
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-25 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, havel
• Patočka reportedly disliked the Plastic People of the Universe's music but signed Charter 77 after their 1976 trial anyway
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-25 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, havel
• McGuire's 1961 papers trace inoculation theory to the Korean War POW "brainwashing" controversy — and reject the official diagnosis that POWs just needed more supportive facts
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · inoculation-theory, william-mcguire, korean-war, brainwashing, cold-war
• Self-immolation as political protest is a 20th-century tactic diffused from Thich Quang Duc's 1963 Saigon act — Woeser's own account says Tibet had no such tradition before 2009
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-20 · china, tibet, one-child-policy, self-immolation, protest-tactics
• Havel: the 1976 trial of the Plastic People of the Universe, not a political dispute, created the climate that produced Charter 77
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-20 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, charter-08
• Self-immolation as protest diffused from 1963 Saigon into Soviet-bloc dissent — Siwiec (1968) and Palach (1969) — per a comparative memorial archive citing Biggs (2005)
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-20 · cold-war, self-immolation, protest-tactics, dissent, czechoslovakia
• Does Michael Biggs's 'Dying without Killing' (2005) actually establish that self-immolation as protest diffused from Quang Duc into the Soviet bloc?
  question answered 2026-08-20 · self-immolation, protest-tactics, cold-war, diffusion, unverified-mechanism
• Havel's own account: a rock band's 1976 obscenity trial, not a political dispute, created the climate that produced Charter 77 — the explicit model for Charter 08, already in this vault via A.E. Clark
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-19 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, charter-08
• What is the primary-source wording and framing of McGuire's 1961 origin of inoculation theory ("a vaccine for brainwash")?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-19 · inoculation-theory, william-mcguire, persuasion, cold-war, korean-war
• Fujitsu's bid for 80 percent of Fairchild Semiconductor exposed that pre-1988 CFIUS was merely advisory, forcing its review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act instead of a national-security veto
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-18 · cfius, exon-florio, semiconductors, cold-war, japan-panic
• Graham & Marchick (2006) independently corroborate the Fujitsu–Fairchild bid, not Toshiba-Kongsberg, as the trigger for the Exon-Florio Amendment
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-18 · cfius, exon-florio, semiconductors, cold-war, japan-panic
• Find a second independent account confirming the Fujitsu–Fairchild bid drove the Exon-Florio Amendment
  capture promoted 2026-07-15 · cfius, exon-florio, semiconductors, cold-war, japan-panic
• Does Pontryagin's 1956 maximum-principle announcement genuinely predate Kelley (1960) as an independent Cold War discovery, and did Boltyanskii/Gamkrelidze/Mishchenko's 1956 work already contain the co-state/adjoint backward-gradient equation?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · pontryagin, kelley, bryson, optimal-control, maximum-principle
• The vault's exemplar blind mathematician, Pontryagin, is an unacknowledged root of backpropagation's optimal-control ancestry
  capture promoted 2026-07-11 · pontryagin, optimal-control, maximum-principle, adjoint-method, costate
• Megatons to Megawatts converted 475.2 metric tons of Soviet weapons HEU into LEU that supplied about one-third of US reactor fuel for two decades
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, cold-war, commodity-economics, nuclear-power
• Project Sapphire (1994) covertly airlifted ~600 kg of Kazakh weapons-grade uranium to Oak Ridge, and its declassified after-action report is an unusually candid Cold War primary source
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, cold-war, kazakhstan, primary-sources
• CFIUS's national-security investment veto is folk-credited to a Soviet submarine scandal -- Congress's own history says a semiconductor deal did it
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, cfius, exon-florio, cold-war, export-controls
• Megatons to Megawatts: the nonproliferation deal that quietly ran US reactors on Soviet warheads, then bankrupted its own administrator
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, cold-war, commodity-economics, immigration-law
• The Congressional Research Service credits the Exon-Florio Amendment (CFIUS's investment veto) to the 1987 Fujitsu–Fairchild bid, not the Toshiba-Kongsberg submarine scandal
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-09 · cfius, exon-florio, cold-war, export-controls, science-policy
• Mike Mansfield, who sponsored the 1969 Mansfield Amendment, later became the longest-serving US Ambassador to Japan (1977–1988)
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · mansfield-amendment, mike-mansfield, cold-war, science-policy, japan
• Toshiba Machine's 1982–84 sale of CNC milling equipment to the USSR is credited with helping quiet Soviet submarine propellers
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · toshiba-kongsberg, cold-war, export-controls, submarine, industrial-espionage
• Verify the Toshiba-Kongsberg 'Soviet submarine detection range cut ~50%' figure against a primary source
  question open 2026-07-09 · toshiba-kongsberg, cold-war, submarine, verification, export-controls
• Duncan Hunter
  entity hub · toshiba-kongsberg, cold-war, congress, export-controls
• Norman Polmar
  entity hub · toshiba-kongsberg, cold-war, submarine, naval-analysis