Caricature of Stalin in trouble after the effect of the 'Truman doctrine': the Russian leader does not stand up the tobacco so strong. Cartoon,...
Military trucks pull trailers of short-range, two-stage missiles with twin tail assembly past the Kremlin. The Soviet Union unveiled a wealth of...
Students at a Brooklyn middle school have a 'duck and cover' practice drill in preparation for a nuclear attack; silver print, 1962. From the New...
Cross-section illustration depicting a family in their underground lead fallout shelter, equipped with a geiger counter, periscope, air filter, etc.,...
People on a viewing platform looking down on a section of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, seen from the western side of the divide. The...
We'll Bury You!, poster, center: Nikita Khrushchev, left from top: Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Josef Stalin, Mao-Tse-Tsung, Vladimir Lenin, Leon...
Soldiers carrying NATO flag take part in the ceremony of the 25th nnniversary of joining Poland To NATO in Krakow, Poland on March 12, 2024.
Line of people watch as a supply plane arrives to deliver food and other staples during the Berlin Airlift after World War II, West Germany.
Selection of US newspaper headlines on President Truman's announcement that Soviet Union had conducted its first nuclear weapon test, 24th September...
Cutaway display of a concrete masonry basement fallout shelter with an exercise bike, television and library, 1950s.
Black-and-white photo shows a man standing next to a surface bomb shelter that is advertising Victor J. Nelson's sales and distribution business,...
Talking from strength ; Vicky cartoon Daily Mirror 14th February 1954. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Winston Churchill stand on a...
Soviet Russian propaganda poster delivering a warning to the USA not to meddle with atomic weapons. The beginning of the Cold War is represented in...
Freedom to the prisoners of Scottsboro!, 1932. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow.
President Harry Truman signs the North Atlantic Pact creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as several foreign diplomats watch. August 24,...
The Vienna summit was a summit meeting held on June 4 in Vienna, Austria, between President John F. Kennedy of the United States and Premier Nikita...
Demonstrators hold hands and vocalize as they march towards Central Park during a massive nuclear disarmament rally where 750,000 gathered to demand...
Protest poster illustrated by Roman Cieslewicz showing two identical Supermen, one with CCCP and one with USA marked on their costumes
At center stage, both at the International Press Center and in the world scheme of things, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald...
The invasion of South Korea last Sunday by communist-dominated North Korean forces; the United nations cease-fire order and President Truman's...
President Reagan addresses the nation on March 23 about the development of a space-age shield to intercept Soviet missiles.
American tanks on alert in the Berlin Grunewald, West Germany, as the crisis over the Cuban blockade looms during the Cuban missile crisis.
The Hydrogen Bomb, pic: 1952, A picture of the thermo-nuclear device tested by the U,S, at the Elugelab test island in the Marshall Islands , The...
