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A few weeks ago, I received an email about an upcoming Kickstarter project that looked really interesting and I wanted to make sure that you all got a good look at the game. The game is DEFCON 1 from Asyncron Games and is a multi-player game that focuses on the decades long ideological struggle between the East and the West with some major twists that will culminate in the kickoff of World War III. We reached out to the designer Florian Dumont to get more information on the design and to get a better look at and understanding of the mechanics and how the game comes together.

IN ALLUDING in the title to John Reed’s book on the Russian revolution Ten Days That Shook the World, Simon Hall clearly feels that Castro’s visit to New York in 1960 has had a similar impact. His brief trip “proved to be both a turning point in the history of the cold war and a foundational moment in the creation of what we think of as ‘the ’60’,” he writes, somewhat hyperbolically. Hall takes Fidel Castro’s iconic stay in Harlem in the autumn of 1960 as a convenient hook on which to hang a potted history of that decade, particularly Cuba-US relations, the cold war and the g...