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
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/04/Family-Fallout-Shelter-Goes-on-Display/
In 1962, at the height of Cold War tensions, Air Force Captain Charles Maultsby flew...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/16/How-the-Aurora-Borealis-Nearly-Started-World-War-III/
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...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/16/What-Can-Be-Done-with-Albanias-750000-Cold-War-Era-Bunkers/
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,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/20/The-Great-EBS-Scare-of-1971/
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...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/04/Cold-War-Tales-Operation-Paul-Bunyan/
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...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/18/Dollhouse-with-a-Fallout-Shelter/
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...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/08/The-Teenager-Who-Flew-into-Red-Square/
Commentary on Esther the Cold War Kittyby Alice Shirrell Kaswell, AIR staff The boo... ...e Shirrell Kaswell, AIR staff The book Esther the Cold War Kitty is legendary. Written at the height of the... ...Kitty is legendary. Written at the height of the Cold War , it was in...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/14/Esther-the-Cold-War-Kitty/
During the Berlin Airlift, one pilot's sweet tooth helped defeat Communism.In 1948, the Soviet beast was hungry. Three years into the postwar occupation of Germany, the USSR had tired of sharing Berlin, so it blockaded g...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/28/The-Candy-Bomber-2/
When the Berlin Wall came down, the East German secret police, known as Stasi, knew their days were numbered, so they began to shred their extensive files. And when the shredders broke down, they tore documents into piec...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/14/Reconstructing-the-Stasi-Files/
