Tagged “cold-war”
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30 Year GDR Anniversary Posters
A page of East German propaganda posters made for the 30th anniversary of the GDR in 1979, with translations and backgro…
Atom Central
A film archive of atomic and nuclear test footage, with authentic period reels from the early bomb tests and the Cold Wa…
AtomicArchive.com
An educational site on the history of nuclear weapons, from the Manhattan Project through the Cold War arms race.
beyondapollo.blogspot.com
Science
Beyond Apollo
Space historian David Portree's blog digging up forgotten, unflown spacecraft concepts proposed during the Cold War spac…
Boomtown at Dawn: Atomic Parties
An illustrated history of the 1950s Las Vegas atomic parties, with rooftop blast-viewing at the Desert Inn and Sands and…
Cold War
A browser simulation platform of retro vector scenes themed on the Cold War, which play out on their own while you tweak…
Cold War
A browser simulation platform of eerie vector scenes - missiles, defenses and cities - inspired by Cold War war-game scr…
Cold War Connecticut: AT&T Cheshire Underground Site
Photos and history of AT&T's hardened underground Long Lines facility in Cheshire, CT, part of a wider archive of Cold W…
Cold War Nike-Hercules Air Defenses of Alaska
An index of pages preserving the twenty-year history of the Nike-Hercules missile air defense sites around Anchorage and…
Green Mist Over Portland
A detective noir puzzle deduction demo set during the Cold War. Investigate what happened to your friend Arthur Birdwhis…
beelineblogger.blogspot.com
Education
How a Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union
A history story on how Boris Yeltsin's 1989 visit to a Houston supermarket and its abundant shelves shook his view of th…
International Spy Museum
A Washington museum devoted to the history of espionage, with online stories about real spies, codes, and covert operati…
Maya Angelou on the Road with Porgy and Bess
A scholarly essay following the young Maya Angelou as a dancer in the 1950s touring production of Porgy and Bess through…
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
An Albuquerque museum tracing the history of the atomic age, from the Manhattan Project through the Cold War, with onlin…
National Security Archive
A George Washington University archive of declassified US government documents, with briefing books and reports on Cold…
Possibly a Serious Possibility
Adam Kucharski explains how vague 'lurking weasel' phrases such as 'serious possibility' skewed Cold War intelligence as…
Spyflight
A detailed history site covering spy planes and reconnaissance aircraft from the Cold War to modern high-altitude survei…
The Computer Genius the Communists Couldn't Stand
The story of Jacek Karpinski, who built a briefcase-sized computer in 1970s Poland that ran a million operations per sec…
The man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster
The story of Dr. Jack ReVelle, who disarmed two hydrogen bombs that fell near Goldsboro in 1961, and of the remarkable l…
The XB-70
A photo essay on the XB-70 Valkyrie, the Mach 3 Cold War bomber, told through the author's father who worked on it, with…
Was the Internet Created to Survive a Nuclear Strike?
A myth-busting history of the early internet that untangles ARPANET, packet switching and Cold War claims about nuclear…
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