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Hussein Ibish, Anxious Allies: The Arab Gulf States and the Iran Nuclear Deal

HSSB 6056 UCSB, CA, United States

Event Description: Israel’s opposition to the Iran nuclear deal is well-known. But how are other U.S. allies in the Middle East, especially Arab Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait, reacting to the agreement? Are the Sunni Arab countries on a collision course with Iran and its allies, or is some degree […]

Talk by Neil Maher: Cold War Star Wars: The New Left and the Space Race During the Vietnam War

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In the mid-1960s, NASA began building space technologies for the war in Vietnam. Students from the New Left vigorously protested against the space agency, which responded in the early 1970s by scrapping several of its military projects and instead developing satellites that could collect useful ecological data on natural resources around the world.  Soon scientists, engineers, […]

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