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Cold War

Things with no place

How does this exist in spatial relation to other knowledge?

This arrangement is schematic. Distance and direction on this diagram carry no physical meaning — it shows how these things relate, not where they are. Nothing here is measured position, live telemetry or a simulation.

ProgrammesVehicles and instrumentsIdeas and conditionsContainmentProxy warSecond-strike survivabilityMutual assured destructionNSC-68International Atomic Energy AgencyNorth Atlantic Treaty OrganizationWarsaw Treaty OrganizationJohn F. KennedyMikhail GorbachevNikita KhrushchevOleg GordievskyStanislav PetrovVasili ArkhipovThe Korean Demilitarized ZoneThe Berlin WallThe San Cristóbal medium-range missile sitesSerpukhov-15The Washington–Moscow Direct Communications LinkThe intercontinental ballistic missileThe Oko early-warning satellite systemThe R-7 SemyorkaThe ballistic-missile submarineThe Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraftThe Anti-Ballistic Missile TreatyThe Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces TreatyTreaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsSALT I — the 1972 Interim Agreement on strategic offensive arms
Schematic. 28 objects, arranged by kind. No position, no distance, no motion.
Programmes3

The organisation that flew the missions, across years.

Vehicles and instruments2

What was built to do it, and what it carried.

Ideas and conditions23

Something with no place at all: a condition, a plan, an idea.