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Week of Events
Films of the Cold War: Countdown to Looking Glass
Films of the Cold War: Countdown to Looking Glass
For over forty years, "Looking Glass" was the nickname of the Airborne Command Post--an essential element in the command and control of the Strategic Air Command's forces. This made-for-TV docudrama is a fictionalized account of how quickly a nuclear war could break out between the US and the Soviet Union over Middle East oil. This […]
New Discoveries in the Jewish and Early Christian Catacombs of Rome
New Discoveries in the Jewish and Early Christian Catacombs of Rome
The catacombs of ancient Rome form the single most important source of information concerning the rise of Christianity from an archaeological point of view. This lecture focuses on exciting new results produced by a science-based approach to these materials, as performed within the framework of a recently concluded international project based at Utrecht University in […]