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Cold War Hot is a good set of short stories by different authors that go through famous scenarios like the Berlin airlift, Vietnam, the Six Days War, amongst others and how they could have gone very differently, often triggering a third world war.
Red Army by Ralph Peters, who was an intelligence analyst for the Army during the Cold War.
It may not fit the bill of being quite like Man in the High Castle, as it's mostly about the theoretical military victory of the USSR against NATO and is told exclusively from the Soviet perspective during the theoretical conflict and not an "aftermath" scenario like High Castle, but it's worth a read and in a similar enough vein.
Scholars who have gone through Stalin's personal library and noted his margin notes are of the opinion that he considered himself a faithful follower and developer of Marx's ideas.
There is, more so in European than American politics, a tradition of "revolutionary patriotism" and/or nationalism, esp. against monarchy/church that is also part of the legacy that Stalin, and to a certain extent, America's founding fathers also partook from, as did many others during "Springtime of Nations".
Not a super important region, Bulgaria, but “The Cold War from the Margins” by Theodora K. Dragostinova is free for Kindle right now. Haven’t started it yet, but looks great from the description and has a neat bibliography:
https://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-Margins-Socialist-Cultural-ebook/dp/B08MMVFD2R
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but well-worth picking up for free, I’m sure.
There's an old joke about cars being given for free in Moscow. Not in Moscow - in Sankt Petersburg. Not cars - bikes. And not given for free - stolen.
The tunnel was fully functional for 11 months and provided loads of useful confirmed intel (eg. orders of battle, soviet nuclear scientists, hq procedures, organization of uranium mines, even identification of KGB agents). It was discovered due to double agent in MI6 and regular repair of tapped lines (replacement of the whole cable). The snow story doesn't make sense since it was 3m under the ground and there was no snow on that day. So does this BS call story, because they were tapped into 1200 channels and even caught calls regarding the actual discovery.
I am wary, it is much better reviewed and states a different publisher, yet it uses the same cover as the poorly reviewed one? https://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Warfare-Ernesto-Che-Guevara/dp/149299748X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UJHWTOTBG0LA&dchild=1&keywords=guerrilla+warfare+che+guevara&qid=1633600223&sprefix=Guer%2Caps%2C999&sr=8-1
This is honestly a fantastic overview of the cold war, given it is an audio book but great for learning the overview and good while driving!
According to The Doomsday Machine total war was the only option, at least for the first half of the Cold War. At least that wasn't part of the planning for the US and therefore by NATO. That being said, the security measures on individual weapons was such that individual uses could be ordered, but without prior planning and communication the number of weapons that could be used in this way would be quite small (at least in my opinion).
Ben Macintyre writes about him along similar lines in The Traitor And The Spy. The subject of the book, Oleg Gordievsky, also mentions him in his autobigrapy "Next Stop Execution". Both books are gripping accounts of the Cold War.
This is a excellent book for UK cold war bunkers. Everythign from leading goverment, military continuity, osbervation and comms and probably more.
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> How did the way nuclear weapons were deployed change from 1949, The first Soviet Nuclear Test, to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union?
It'd take a book to answer that. May I recommend The Evolution Of Nuclear Strategy which is pretty comprehensive.
> Two helicopters actually pursuing something into Canada would have presumably had one hell of a writeup.
Nah. "Arcturus".
One comment on that incident I haven't seen anywhere online was relayed to me by someone who was there. Apparently, on the second night of that incident, there was some radio traffic, presumably between the weapons storage area and the base security just simply stating "Our friends in black have returned." And then a minute or two of base security trying to get more information being met by dead air before they got a response.
If you're interested in this specific Loring AFB incident, or even interested in just the weapons storage area itself, I have a book that I could recommend. A warning though, he's not a very good writer. Technically it's fiction (and that's not made terribly clear on amazon), but it seems to me that a lot of the content is fact retold with a fictional narrative. Maybe easier than trying to get the USAF to sign off on it.