Military trucks pull trailers of short-range, two-stage missiles with twin tail assembly past the Kremlin. The Soviet Union unveiled a wealth of...
President Reagan points at a map of the Soviet Union as he speaks to listeners about the need to control nuclear missiles.
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...
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.
Cutaway display of a concrete masonry basement fallout shelter with an exercise bike, television and library, 1950s.
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.
Salvadoran Army soldiers watch as an officer instructs them during a mortar training exercise, San Vicente department, El Salvador, June 26, 1983.
President Harry Truman signs the North Atlantic Pact creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as several foreign diplomats watch. August 24,...
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,...
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...
The invasion of South Korea last Sunday by communist-dominated North Korean forces; the United nations cease-fire order and President Truman's...
American tanks on alert in the Berlin Grunewald, West Germany, as the crisis over the Cuban blockade looms during the Cuban missile crisis.
Freedom to the prisoners of Scottsboro!, 1932. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow.
Selection of US newspaper headlines on President Truman's announcement that Soviet Union had conducted its first nuclear weapon test, 24th September...
Talking from strength ; Vicky cartoon Daily Mirror 14th February 1954. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Winston Churchill stand on a...
American Convair B.36D 'Peacemaker' strategic bombers under construction at the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation's plant in Fort Worth,...
President John F Kennedy during an inspection tour of units staged at Fort Stewart, Georgia, 26th November 1962. With the president are Commanding...
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...
Anti-American Soviet Propaganda Poster, illustrated by Victor Koretsky a grarled hand figuratively plundering the wealth.
Protest poster illustrated by Roman Cieslewicz showing two identical Supermen, one with CCCP and one with USA marked on their costumes
Ten-year-old Mitchell Legler , his sister Sandra , and her friend, Nancy Walker , test the escape hatch of the Legler family's bomb shelter in...
President Reagan addresses the nation on March 23 about the development of a space-age shield to intercept Soviet missiles.
November 29 Minneapolis Star newspaper cartoon by staff editorial cartoonist Roy Justus, entitled STEP ON IT, DOC! Description of cartoon: An eagle...
