Step into the “The Cold War Files and explore the intense geopolitical landscape, nuclear brinkmanship, and proxy conflicts that defined the Cold War era.
The Cold War Files
The Palomares atomic bomb disaster of 1966 was a major nuclear accident that occurred in the small agricultural and fishing town of Palomares.
America was at war with Vietnam. Casualties were high on both sides. On America’s end, African Americans suffered disproportionately high casualty rates in Vietnam
In 1960, the US Army developed a secret program named Project Iceworm aimed at constructing a network of movable nuclear missile launch sites beneath the Greenland ice sheet.
The United States of America installed several military bases in Greenland. One of those bases was Camp Century, and the other was the Thule Air Base where the Thule Bomb Accident of 1968 took place
Room 39 is one of the most secret organizations in arguably the world’s most secretive state.
The Lunik Plot was a CIA operation during the Cold War in which a Soviet Union spacecraft was hijacked at a train station.
On June, three dangerous criminals broke out of a maximum-security prison known as Alcatraz.
Entomological warfare is a form of biological warfare in which insects are used to disrupt supply lines through damage to crops, or directly to injure enemy combatants and civilian populations
In the annals of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) investigative history, one particular case stands out: the yearlong investigation into the song “Louie Louie.”
Project Chatter, a highly classified operation carried out by the United States Navy during the Cold War era, delved into the realms of mind control and chemical interrogation.
During the 1950s, the CIA created a special course taught by OTS to teach field officers the art of opening mail without detection. This mail-intercept project that lasted for 20 years
Operation Acoustic Kitty was a 1960s-era CIA project that sought to utilize cats for espionage missions, with plans to monitor the Kremlin and Soviet embassies.