Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it’s enough to make contact with two Liverpudlian natives, Elaine and Theresa.
Elaine and Peter immediately fall in love with each other, but the night is short and they must leave with the ship. Elaine can’t forget him and writes a letter to Leonid Brezhnev, asking him to make it possible for them to reunite.
Richard Widmark as ‘Captain Finlander USN’
IMDb: An American destroyer captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined.
The Bedford Incident is a 1965 British-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, and co-produced by Richard Widmark.
The cast also features James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox and Eric Portman, as well as early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop.
The screenplay by James Poe is based on the 1963 book by Mark Rascovich, which was patterned after Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.
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vintage postcards: Set of 3 Soviet warships (undated)
“In wartime, minefields could be laid out along coastal waters, harbors or rivers to discourage the passage of ships. Blockade of a harbor could be achieved with mines alone. As passive devices, mines remain submerged well after hostilities end, and pose serious threats to commerce until they are cleared from the waterways. Clearing mines was the task of the minesweepers, a small vessel tailored for the job.
“The Hamilton County was a minesweeper tender designed to provide support for an assortment of minesweepers. By January 1956 when I reported aboard, the Navy had developed a minesweeper which had all the bells and whistles needed to sweep mines and avoid being blown up in the process…”
I’ve actually got this edition. (It’s not as funny as the movie!)
Peter Bryant - Red Alert (Ace D-350) on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Bryant, Peter
Red Alert
1959
Ace D-350
Cover uncredited
![was entering text for twitter notify and accidentally entered “telegraphic cipher cod” and got a really funny mental picture of a mysterious fish
mudwerks:
tuesday-johnson:
…In the 19th century codebooks were used not so much for secrecy as for compression, to bring down the prohibitive cost of telegraph communication. (The first trans-Atlantic cables cost $5 a word.) Designers devised lists of words to replace phrases and even sentences.
But when Dr. Bellovin hunted though the card catalog, his interest was piqued by an 1882 codebook whose title included the word “secrecy.”
“I thought, ‘O.K., let me go see how they did it,’ ” he recalled. “When I read the two-page preface, my jaw dropped.”
He could plainly see that the document described a technique called the one-time pad fully 35 years before its supposed invention during World War I by Gilbert Vernam, an AT&T engineer, and Joseph Mauborgne, later chief of the Army Signal Corps.
[more…]
via the New York Times, “Codebook Shows an Encryption Form Dates Back to Telegraphs”, John Markoff
[!!!…love this…]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lozxkcVSsH1qa51rdo1_400.jpg)
was entering text for twitter notify and accidentally entered “telegraphic cipher cod” and got a really funny mental picture of a mysterious fish
…In the 19th century codebooks were used not so much for secrecy as for compression, to bring down the prohibitive cost of telegraph communication. (The first trans-Atlantic cables cost $5 a word.) Designers devised lists of words to replace phrases and even sentences.
But when Dr. Bellovin hunted though the card catalog, his interest was piqued by an 1882 codebook whose title included the word “secrecy.”
“I thought, ‘O.K., let me go see how they did it,’ ” he recalled. “When I read the two-page preface, my jaw dropped.”
He could plainly see that the document described a technique called the one-time pad fully 35 years before its supposed invention during World War I by Gilbert Vernam, an AT&T engineer, and Joseph Mauborgne, later chief of the Army Signal Corps.
via the New York Times, “Codebook Shows an Encryption Form Dates Back to Telegraphs”, John Markoff
[!!!…love this…]
(via Pulp International - Photos of US nuclear test on Bikini Atoll)
Photo of a U.S. nuclear test conducted at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific, the bomb having been dropped from a plane flying about 12,000 feet up, today 1956.
Growing up in Washington DC during the Cold War, we knew these to be lies. If the shit ever hit the fan, there would be nothing left of us but some brown goo at the bottom of a smoldering crater.
Collier’s, January 17, 1942
Glory to the Mighty Soviet Aviation (by paul.malon)
1951
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