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Making Cold War was a formidable task, requiring a team of about 50 people who compiled 1,100 hours of archival film and conducted some 900 hours of interviews. The effort was rewarded in finds like footage of a rocket exploding on its launch site in Siberia. KGB film was obtained showing the arrest of CIA agents named by Aldrich Ames, and these are some of the most startling scenes in the series. Finding interview subjects was also arduous. Senior researcher Svetlana Palmer tracked down some people from old books that mentioned heroes of socialist labor. Then...
...quirky leader, Kim Jong Il: he knows how to get the world's attention. Early last week, a powerful new missile lifted off from a secret base on North Korea's eastern coast and streaked toward Japan. Dumping its first stage off the western coast of Japan, the rocket sped high over the country and plunked down into the Pacific Ocean. But it packed a political wallop that resounded in capitals from Tokyo to Washington. The message: North Korea may be broke and short of food, but the Stalinist state has a dangerous...
Still, the Taepo Dong-1 should help to refocus the thinking of policymakers in Washington. It is light-years ahead of its predecessor, the Nodong-1, a one-stage rocket with a range of up to 620 miles. Multiple-stage vehicles require expertise in guidance systems and other tricky technology. Thus last week's launch means the North is a step closer to building intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the mainland U.S., according to Richard Speier, a Carnegie Foundation consultant and former missile proliferation expert at the Pentagon...
...second at bat of his team?s 145th game of the 1998 season. He did it far more quickly than Roger Maris, in far fewer at bats, and indeed this race against history has been a foregone conclusion for weeks. Yet as McGwire watched that 62nd baseball rocket out toward left field and barely ?- just barely, this time -? clear the fence and become part of legend, all the weeks of anticipation melted into joy. And what the highlight films will show us, tonight and tomorrow night and down an endless trail of nights on into history, was this: Mark McGwire...
...bird! It's a three-stage missile! No, it's a satellite. In a highly dubious twist to the ongoing military tension between North Korea and Japan, the Korean Central News Agency now claims that the ballistic rocket fired five days ago was not a test -- but the launching of Pyongyang's very own Sputnik. "Our scientists and technicians have succeeded in launching the first artificial satellite aboard a multi-stage rocket," KCNA said Friday. Not only that, but this little orbital wonder is apparently transmitting "the song of General Marshal Kim Jong Il" across the globe at this very...