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We Visit the Last Surviving Titan II Missile Silo in a Flashback to the Cold War

March 12, 2019 Tom Demerly

Arizona’s Remote Titan Missile Museum is a Rare Gem of Cold War History. Miss Christel Widera may be the sweetest grandmother you’ve ever met. A great sense of humor, wears a neatly turned out cardigan. […]

Broken Arrow incidents: when U.S. B-52 bombers lost their nuclear weapons during the Cold War

April 24, 2013 Dario Leone

Back in 1955, when it entered the operational service with the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC), the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress had the nuclear strike against the Soviet forces as its main mission. During […]