ATOMIC-ANNIHILATION

 ... this is a great documentary! All of the PBS 'American Experience' programs are excellent! It is an accurate and well crafted lo...

 I cruise the Internet a lot  looking for, amongst other things, Cold War material to put on this Blog. Here is a series of photos from a in...

  Sikorsky Heavy Lift Helicopter (HLH)   see Link at bottom of post!     LINK        

 ... no background on this. But let us imagine it was produced at the Sheboygan, Wisconsin Rotary Club as a public service and aired before ...

 A British 'V-Bomber', a Handley Page 'Victor', is scrambled. Notice the all white 'anti-flash' livery. This was pro...

 

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 From 1948 to 1955 the Convair B-36 'Peacemaker' was the only aircraft capable of making a round trip from the United States to the ...

  ... notice there is no mention of Polaris Ballistic Missile Submarines? They won't come on duty till next year (1961). Instead of a &#...

 ... from those patriotic warhawk fellows at the 'National Lampoon'. They hit the nose on the button! There isn't a male Boomer ...

   

As Dr. Strangelove would have pointed out; the insane logic of Mutually Assured Destruction*  relies on the 'Assurance' that if ther...

  ... painted by master illustrator Keith Ferris and brought to us by the wonderfully cranky host of 'Up-ship' https://up-ship.com/b...

The Soviet Union was always a scary place. Lot's of violence and blood. Lot's of murder in the name of utopia. But the dictatorship ...

 Soviet workers utilize a leftover Mig-15 fighter jet to clear snow from railroad tracks near Moscow.  My Eastern Bloc friends would heartil...

 ...brought into service 1958-59 two seat F-106B Convair 'Delta Dart'.  wiki   all images - Right Click - Open in New Window or Tab ...

  Look at modern mythology and the blending of myth and fact. The specter of nuclear war has to be the most dark, and ominous theme. Before ...

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 Take a LISTEN.. no doubt this is the most eerie sound ever devised by man. Even today, when they test the 'tornado sirens' I still ...

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