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Cold War: How The Cold War Gave Us Google Maps

Geoff Riley

29th November 2018

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A short video on one of the by-products of the Cold War. GPS was created by the U.S. military during the Cold War and designed to deliver bombs to their exact locations.

Cold War: How The Cold War Gave Us Google Maps
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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