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  2. Red Dawn - Wikipedia

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    Red Dawn is a 1984 American action drama film directed by John Milius with a screenplay by Milius and Kevin Reynolds.The film depicts a fictional World War III centering on a military invasion of the United States by an alliance of Soviet, Warsaw Pact, and Communist Latin American states.

  3. How 'The Day After' terrified Americans 40 years ago ... - AOL

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    An estimated 100 million people watched Nicholas Meyer's apocalyptic TV movie when it premiered in 1983. How 'The Day After' terrified Americans 40 years ago: 'Nuclear war on a good day' Skip to ...

  4. Proud Prophet - Wikipedia

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    It's clear that the United States did not have any intentions of launching a nuclear first strike against the Soviets, but were having a significant amount of trouble communicating this. Project RYAN continued to feed into Soviet fears that the United States was being dishonest, and Able Archer 83 simply fanned the flames.

  5. How Las Vegas went from mobbed-up town to the center of the ...

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    The Mob did not create Las Vegas. Supercharged it, yes. ... “More behind-the-scenes than the movie ‘Casino’ would make it appear, but it was definitely part of the landscape for a long time ...

  6. Where Old Vegas is still alive today

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    At one point every casino in Las Vegas had a machine like this one; today this is the only coin-operated iteration left. Inside Circa Las Vegas, visitors flock to glimpse Vegas Vickie, a 25-foot ...

  7. Thirteen Days (film) - Wikipedia

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    Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave Thirteen Days a rating of 3 stars out of 4, and said "The movie's taut, flat style is appropriate for a story that is more about facts and speculation than about action. Kennedy and his advisers study high-altitude photos and intelligence reports, and wonder if Khrushchev's word can be trusted.

  8. No, We Are Not Living in ‘Late Soviet America’ - AOL

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    “The U.S. economy might be the envy of the rest of the world today,” Niall writes, “but recall how American experts overrated the Soviet economy in the 1970s and 1980s.” Come on now.

  9. Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] That and the reluctance of the British and the French governments to sign a full-scale anti-German political and military alliance with the Soviets [8] led to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Germany in late August 1939, [9] which indicated the Soviet Union's decisive break with France by becoming an economic ...