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1960

ICBMS

BANNING SPACE TESTS

CIRCUS FOLK

 

TEST SERIES

PUT THAT OUT

TRYING TO BURY

 

HOSTILE REACTION

NUCLEAR STRENGTH

OUT OF THE BOTTLE

 

NUCLEAR TESTS

ONTO THE BRINK

CAN A GOAT EAT

 

INTIMIDATING FINLAND

SEEKING PEACE

MLK ASSASSINATION

 

NUCLEAR CHINA

DISARMAMENT TREATIES

100-MEGATON BOMBS

 

INVASION OF HUNGARY

BLOWING MY TOP

SUPER BOMB THREATS

 

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

BURY YOU

PRAGUE SPRING

 

EQUIPPING GERMANY

ARMING GERMANY

MAN’S REACH

 

MOON RACE

GLORY!

THE WAY IS OPEN

 

YURI

YURI GAGARIN

VALENTINA TERESHKOVA

 

COSMONAUT

WORLD RELAXES

PLANTING INFLUENCE

 

THREAT TO INTERVENE

DOOMSDAY CLOCK

SOVIET THREAT

 

CUBAN BLOCKADE

NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON

FIELD LAUNCH SITE

 

MISSILE RANGE

WHITE HOUSE MEETING

DESTROYING PEACE

 

EVEN SANTA

SOVIETS IN BERLIN

THE WALL GOES UP

 

KHRUSHCHEV THREATS

FIGHT OVER CUBA

ORBIT

 
Conrad Schumann was immortalized in this photograph as he leapt across the barricade that would become the Berlin Wall. The photo was called “The Leap into Freedom”. It became an iconic image of the Cold War.

THE LEAP INTO FREEDOM

East German soldier helps a little boy sneak across the Berlin Wall, August 13, 1961.

SOLDIER HELPS LITTLE BOY

East German VOPO, a quasi-military border policeman using binoculars, standing guard on one of the bridges linking East and West Berlin, in 1961.

EAST GERMAN VOPO WITH BINOCULARS

 
Reverend Martin Luther King, American civil rights leader, invited to Berlin by West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, visits the wall on September 13, 1964, at the border Potsdamer Platz in West Berlin.

MARTIN LUTHER KING

Flag-draped coffins of eight American Servicemen killed in attacks on U.S. military installations in South Vietnam, on February 7, are placed in transport plane at Saigon, February 9, 1965, for return flight to the United States. Funeral services were held at the Saigon Airport with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor and Vietnamese officials attending.

COFFIN

Four “Ranch Hand” C-123 aircraft spray liquid defoliant on a suspected Viet Cong position in South Vietnam in September of 1965. The four specially equipped planes covered a 1,000-foot-wide swath in each pass over the dense vegetation.

PLANES

 
 
In Berkeley-Oakland City, California, demonstrators march against the war in Vietnam in December of 1965.

DEMONSTRATORS

A GI gets a closeup photo as President Nixon meets with troops of the 1st Infantry Division at Di An, 12 miles northeast of Saigon, on his eighth visit to South Vietnam and his first as president, on July 30, 1969.

NIXON

A map of Cuba annotated by former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, displayed for the first time at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 13, 2005. Former President Kennedy wrote “Missile Sites” on the map and marked them with an X when he was first briefed by the CIA on the Cuban Missile Crisis on October 16, 1962.

MAP OF CUBA

 
 
U.S. President John F. Kennedy speaks before reporters during a televised speech to the nation about the strategic blockade of Cuba, and his warning to the Soviet Union about missile sanctions, during the Cuban missile crisis, on October 24, 1962 in Washington, DC.

PRESIDENT KENNEDY

Evidence presented by the U.S. Department of Defense, of Soviet missiles in Cuba. This low level photo, made October 23, 1962, of the medium range ballistic missile site under construction at Cuba’s San Cristobal area. A line of oxidizer trailers is at center. Added since October 14, the site was earlier photographed, are fuel trailers, a missile shelter tent, and equipment. The missile erector now lies under canvas cover. Evident also are extensive vehicle tracks and the construction of cable lines to control areas.

EVIDENCE OF MISSILES

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, second from right, confronts Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin, first on left, with a display of reconnaissance photographs during emergency session of the U.N. Security Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on October 25, 1962.

UNITED NATIONS

 
 
A composite image of three photograph taken on October 23, 1962, during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis. From left, Soviet foreign deputy minister Valerian A. Zorin; Cuba’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui; and U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.

DELEGATES

Cuban President Fidel Castro replies to President Kennedy’s naval blockade via Cuban radio and television, on October 23, 1962.

FIDEL CASTRO

Members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) march during a protest against the U.S. action over the Cuban missile crisis, on October 28, 1962 in London, England.

“HANDS OFF CUBA”

 
 
Picketers representing an organization known as Women Strike for Peace carry placards outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City, where the U.N. Security Council considers the Cuban missile crisis in a special meeting, on October 23, 1962.

WOMEN STRIKE FOR PEACE

A Soviet submarine near the Cuban coast controlling the operations of withdrawal of the Russian Missiles from Cuba in accordance with the US-Soviet agreement, on November 10, 1962. American planes and helicopters flew at a low level to keep close check on the dismantling and loading operations, while US warships watched over Soviet freighters carrying missiles back to Soviet Union.

SOVIET SUBMARINE

U.S. Army anti-aircraft rockets, mounted on launchers and pointed out over the Florida Straits in Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962.

ANTI-AIRCRAFT ROCKETS

NINE DAYS IN ONE YEAR

NEUTRAL WATERS

DR. STRANGELOVE

FAIL-SAFE

THE ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE SHOW

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING

 

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