(Photo: 1987, Soviet Air Force Tu-95 escorted by U...  ...lear weapons inside the United States. During the Cold War , these planes occasionally flew with their deadly...

The Strategic Computing Initiative (SCI) was a pro...  ...983 and flourished through the final phase of the Cold War . Its aim was to enable interconnected super compu...  ...spying, reconnaissance, threat response, and even warfare . It was sold to Congress as being an economic boo...

In the aftermath of World War II, the US and the USSR armed themselves to the t...  ...eliver them. Baby Boomers grew up expecting World War III to begin any minute, and of course it would b...  ...ome power-hungry general wanted to launch his own war ? What if there were a fals...

Ken Zwick and Carol Hollar-Zwick bought a home in...  ...Cover Neenah! Backyard Family Fallout Shelters in Cold War America.” Read more about Cold War

In 1962, at the height of Cold War tensions, Air Force Captain Charles Maultsby flew...

During the reign of Communist dictator Enver Hoxha (r. 1944-1985), Albania built 750,000 bunkers. That's 1 bunker for every 4 citizens. They're still around and are something of a nuisance. Wired's Pete Brook reports:Tod...

On Saturday, February 20, 1971, a civilian teletyp...  ...tions across the U.S. I've told stories about the Cold War and how seriously everyone took the Emergency Bro...  ...tem (EBS). Activation of the system meant nuclear war to almost everyone who heard it.Station managers,...

This article is republished from the book Uncle Jo...  ...as been a tense place since the end of the Korean War in the 1950s. It's been the site of periodic flar...  ...orea was a valuable strategic target. After World War II, the Japanese Empire fell apart, and the count...  ...ons again. But a new conflict was...

Eartha Kitsch found a dollhouse for sale at eBay that was manufactured in 1962. That was the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis and shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Americans were naturally concerned with...

Do you remember Mathias Rust? Hard to believe, but it's been 25 years since the 19-year-old pilot flew from his home in West Germany and landed in the center of Moscow, breaking through every Soviet defense.Once the poli...