Dr Strangelove was supposed to make nuclear war look absurd. Decades later, one of its darkest inventions no longer looks like fiction. Nuclear disarmament activist Jim Thomas revisits Stanley Kubrick’s legendary #coldwar #satire and explains what the film got frighteningly right.

1956: Reconnaisance squadron of the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes in Sikorsky S-55 (H-19 Chickasaw) helicopters.

#MilitaryHistory #France #Algeria #ColdWar

Summer 1950: A Bren gunner in position during movement of a convoy along Route Coloniale 4 near the Chinese border, en route to Lang Son.

#MilitaryHistory #France #Vietnam #Indochina #ColdWar

Fallex 82, Royal Canadian Dragoons Leopard tank in a small German village, Ex Valiant Shield, Germany, Oct 1982. 🇨🇦 LAC Photo #ColdWar #TankTuesday

De Vought A-7 Corsair II maakte zijn eerste vlucht in 1965 en werd ingezet tijdens de Vietnamoorlog. Vergeleken met snellere vliegtuigen zoals de F-4 Phantom was de A-7 niet bepaald glamoureus.
#USAF #VietnamWar #Coldwar #Warbird

Justice by Madalyn Morgan
@Stormbooks_co #coldwar #spy #thriller

Ena Dudley and Artie Mallory investigate espionage and treason.

"Gripping story & great conclusion."
"Great research."
"I couldn't put Justice down."
"A page-turner."

#Kindle #KindleUnlimited #Paperback
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The Object in the Woods | Kecksburg, December 9, 1965
A fireball crossed six states and dropped into the woods outside Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.
#KecksburgUFO #Kecksburg #UFO #SpaceAcorn #UFOCrash #ProjectBlueBook #ColdWar #TrueMystery #HistoryChannel #UAP #Roswell #JohnMurphy #ObjectInTheWoods

Victor cut-away
#nuclear
#aviation
#coldwar
#history

Valiant cut-away
#nucleear
#coldwar
#history
#aviation

Vulcan cut-away
#coldwar
#nuclear
#history
#aviation

Radar Dome on the Wasserkuppe summit near the former inner German border.
#Radom #Rhön #Hessen #Germany #ColdWar #History

"Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter, hug 'em so tight they can't wiggle." - Lyndon B. Johnson

#USRepresentative #ColdWar #AmericanCivilWar #MilitaryPeople #WordsOfVeterans

Former Ellsworth AFB security policemen reunite after five decades to recount a close encounter over a nuclear missile, raising questions about UFO nuclear ties, hypnotic regressions, and a Cold War disinformation trail. #UFO #Nuclear #ColdWar #Disinformation

⚠️ #HISTORY
They tried to erase him from history. In 1961, #PatriceLumumba — the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the #Congo — was overthrown and killed during the height of the #ColdWar.

The CIA overthrew elected governments in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile. Americans were told this was democracy being defended.on Substack at culturalperspective.com #CIA #ColdWar #Chile #AmericanDemocracy #CulturalPerspective

🛩️ Russia without Russia? Now that’s a plot twist. 🇷🇺🎬

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#maydaymovie #ryanreynolds #kennethbranagh #budapest #montréal #coldwar #filmlocationstours #movielocationstours #setjettingtours #cinephiletravels #movietravellers #wherewasitfilmed

🎄📚💙📚⚡️⏳ #avgeek #aviation #History #ColdWar

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On this day in the #coldwar 7 September, 1978, #Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was stabbed on Waterloo Bridge in #London with a ricin-tipped umbrella. 4 days later, he died.

Discover more here coldwarconversations.com/episode466

During the #ColdWar, British soldiers fought an insurgency against the Provisional #IRA in their own country. Probably the toughest location was South #Armagh.

Listen here 🎧🎧https://coldwarconversations.com/episode472

#thetroubles #coldwar #ireland