By the end of the week, the deed for the former Cold War bunker here will finally be in Jonathan Baha’i’s hands. “It’s very exciting,” said Baha’i, whopurchased the bunker back in November for $31,300 during a tax sale, as well as an adjacent property to be used as a parking lot. The two properties were on the auction block because [...]
Rian.ru reports: Russia will decommission and scrap two of the largest submarines in the world by 2018, a defense industry source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The Severstal and the Arkhangelsk, both Project 841 (Typhoon-class) ballistic-missile submarines, based at Severodvinsk on the White Sea, will be withdrawn from the Navy by the end of this year and will begin to [...]
The Daily Mail reports: It may seem surprising to us today, but as recently as 1962 there were very specific places in America where denizens of Mother Russia were—and were not—allowed to travel and there is a map to prove it. On January 3, 1955, the United States Departments of Justice and Interior began enforcing restrictions on where visiting Soviet [...]
Euronews.com reports: Shortly to be added to the list of Europe’s most unusual tourist destinations, you too will soon be able to experience some of that Cold War chill in this nuclear bunker in the Czech Republic. Misov, some 60 kilometres from the German border, got its underground complex in the Khrushchev years, and now it is a museum to [...]
The History News Network reports: By David Austin Walsh, editor of the History News Network. Just how close did the world come to full-blown nuclear war in the 1980s? Frighteningly close. That’s the conclusion of researchers at the National Security Archive at George Washington University, which released on May 16 a collection of documents on the 1983 Able Archer war scare, the closest [...]
A ground effect vehicle (GEV) is one that attains level flight near the surface of the Earth, making use of the aerodynamic interaction between the wings and the surface known as ground effect. Most known are the Soviet ekranoplanes, but names like wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicle, flarecraft, sea skimmer, SkimMachine, or wing-in-surface-effect ship (WISE) occur. In recent years a large number [...]
Wired.com reports: During 10 days in November 1983, the United States and the Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war. Newly declassified documents from the CIA, NSA, KGB, and senior officials in both countries reveal just how close we came to mutually assured destruction — over a military exercise. That exercise, Able Archer 83, simulated the transition by NATO from [...]
frontpagemag.com reports: Try a word association quiz with the phrase “Cold War,” and the first two responses that are almost certain to come to the mind of the general public are “paranoia” and “McCarthyism,” which is practically a synonym for paranoia. The common assumption, thanks to decades of public school indoctrination and the influence of leftist intellectuals, is that the [...]
The Daily Mail reports: On the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy’s historic trip to Berlin to show solidarity with the citizens of West Germany, photographs of the memorable event captured by Ulrick Mack are to be reproduced in a book of over a hundred images. John F. Kennedy made history with a speech that began ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ in [...]
jber.af.mil reports: More than 200 people filled the Bureau of Land Management Campbell Creek Science Center April 17 for a free history lesson on Alaska’s historic radar sites. Karlene Leeper, an Air Force archaeologist with the 611th Air Support Group, spoke for more than an hour about the role Alaska played in protecting the skies of North America during the [...]
Dornier 17 – The Flying PencilMay 24, 2013
One careful owner, canon included: German Armored Car discovered in drug dealer’s back garden during police raid is auctioned off for £5,000May 24, 2013
The Pursuit of Bismarck & the Sinking of H.M.S. Hood (72 years ago today)May 24, 2013
WWII vet gets ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ from Japan’s ambassadorMay 24, 2013
Former Cold War bunker passes through redemption periodMay 24, 2013
When Pets Get Drafted: The Bizarre History of Animal SoldiersMay 24, 2013
Memorial to honour Australian WWI tunnellersMay 24, 2013
Japanese WWII veteran says comfort women brothels were wrongMay 24, 2013
Intelligence archive: Hitler helped Allied case late in war due to blunders he was makingMay 24, 2013
Local Jeweler’s WWII Dog Tags Unearthed In Normandy Nearly 70 Years LaterMay 24, 2013
How Hitler’s U-Boats Are Still Attacking UsMay 23, 2013
Colonel Leonard T. Schroeder – 30 Years Service and First Man on Normandy BeachMay 23, 2013
“Useful Enemies”: U.S. admitted not just Nazis after WWII, but their sadistic collaboratorsMay 23, 2013
1900s-1920s: Lucky SwastikasMay 23, 2013
British WWII Spying and Propaganda in U.S. Shown in Secret FilesMay 23, 2013
Intelligence archive: Cross dressing spy who caused a headache for British mastersMay 23, 2013
Built by forced labour, Nazi bunkers being converted into modern homesMay 23, 2013
Intelligence archives: Britain bribed Spain to stay out of WWIIMay 23, 2013
Last two living survivors of WWII sinking of HMS Gloucester return to Plymouth for dedication of memorial stoneMay 23, 2013
Obituaries: Major David Taylor, who has died aged 92, won an MC in 1944 at the Normandy bridgehead.May 23, 2013
