A brief history of VLBI

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This issue of Physics Today has an interesting overview of the development of VLBI . It's not a technical history but rather an administrative one, for lack of a better word.

"From radio with love: A Cold War astronomical collaboration" 

To construct an interferometer with a baseline spanning the planet, US radio astronomers reached out to their Soviet counterparts.

Rebecca Charbonneau

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Physics Today 78 (9), 36–43 (2025)

(https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/78/9/36/3359660/From-radio-with-love-A-Cold-War-astronomical}

It is open access.

I'm sure that some of you may have played a part.....bill...