This picture was taken at the Minuteman Missile Na...  ...The facility was manned 24 hours a day during the Cold War

Fifty years ago today, the US and the USSR came cl...  ...go today, the US and the USSR came close to World War III. That was both due to and saved by modern tec...  ...and radio signals were extremely important in the Cold War .On May 23, 1967, the sun fired off a flare so pow...  ...three of the Air Force's Ba...

Cold War . In the 1950s, Americans were shocked when thousa...  ...s captured by North Korea eventually confessed to war crimes they hadn't committed, and some even refus...  ...nd some even refused to return to the US when the war was over. That was unthinkable.Suddenly the thre...

During the Cold War , the world went MAD, which means "mutually assure...

In 1956, the United States launched a series of balloons that took advantage of weather patterns to spy on the USSR. They went up in Europe, glided over the Soviet Union, and were intercepted over Japan, where planes wou...

Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska has a strange piece of history in a pond at the end of a runway. A Boeing B-29 Superfortress has been sitting there in the water for at least 60 years, where it's earned the nickname the...

Newcomb Mott was a 27-year-old world traveler in 1965, accustomed to using his summers to learn about far-flung countries. That summer, he traveled to the Arctic town of Kirkenes, Norway. The border between Norway and th...

The following article is from the new book Uncle J...  ...hat would have marked the opening battle of World War III.SHOCK WAVEIn September 1949, a U.S. Air Force...  ...he United States had known since the end of World War II that the Soviets would try to build their own...  ...dropped on Nagasaki in the closing...

The following article is from the new book Uncle J...  ...away, a bazooka-like weapon firing small nuclear warheads was envisioned. The U.S. Army already had such a...  ...rth. It was called the Davy Crockett gun, and its warheads had the explosive force of 10 to 30 tons of TNT....  ...al (heat) energy as it wou...

Jane McDevitt and Neal Whittington have an Instagr...  ...atchbox covers of the Eastern Bloc, the communist Warsaw Pact nations of Eastern Europe during the Cold War . They are quite varied.The scenes depicted on the...