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THE RED ATLAS - JOHN DAVIES ALEXANDER J KENT GE...

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War  its legacy and the accompanying
Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on
the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data clouds and leaks
but long before we had satellite imagery of any neighborhood at a finger's reach  the amount
the Soviet government knew about your family's city  street  and even your home would astonish
you. Revealing how this was possible  The Red Atlas is the never-before-told story of the most
comprehensive mapping endeavor in history and the surprising maps that resulted. From 1950 to
1990  the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program  creating large-scale maps
for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full
range of military planning. For big cities like New York  DC  and London to towns like Pontiac
MI and Galveston  TX  the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. What
they chose to include on these maps can seem obvious like locations of factories and ports  or
more surprising  such as building heights  road widths  and bridge capacities. Some of the
detail suggests early satellite technology  while other specifics  like detailed depictions of
depths and channels around rivers and harbors  could only have been gained by actual Soviet
feet on the ground. The Red Atlas includes over 350 extracts from these incredible Cold War
maps  exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us
about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us. A fantastic
historical document of an era that sometimes seems less distant  The Red Atlas offers an
uncanny view of the world through the eyes of Soviet strategists and spies.

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