podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn

nsa Ingenious Cold War keylogger the Russians used to bug Selectric typewriters in the US embassy David Pescovitz

books A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow

b-side Watch the CBS broadcast of the moon landing, old school commercials and all Seamus Bellamy

gaming Review: Phantom Doctrine lacks the fun of XCOM Seamus Bellamy

cold war Cold War Soviet gas masks available on Amazon David Pescovitz

books You can vote in the Children's History Book Prize! Cory Doctorow

russia Russia buffs strategic Baltic nuclear bunker Seamus Bellamy

videos Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory releases 62 declassified videos of nuclear weapons tests Cory Doctorow

videos Make: Soviet themed launch-code box complete with missile switch covered toggles Cory Doctorow

religion Pacifist sect controls a Mayan-inspired pyramid in North Dakota Andrea James

History Vintage photos show NORAD's construction and operation Andrea James

happy mutants Austin Grossman's CROOKED: the awful, cthulhoid truth about Richard Nixon Cory Doctorow