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Balls: The Story of Mathias Rust – Atomic Express
http://www.atomicexpress.net/2012/12/07/balls-the-story-of-mathias-rust
Journeys into Cold War History. Balls: The Story of Mathias Rust. Looks like Chloe Hadjimatheou at BBC beat me to it! It is the 25th anniversary of Mathias Rust’s penetration of the Soviet Air Defence Command aboard a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, which he landed right on RED SQUARE in 1987! A full article depicting the flight’s details by Tom LeCompte at Air and Space. And is worth reading too. A re-post from the BBC. Mathias Rust: German teenager who flew to Red Square. By Chloe HadjimatheouBBC World Service.
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Cold War Manitoba – Atomic Express
http://www.atomicexpress.net/2013/05/08/cold-war-manitoba
Journeys into Cold War History. I’m currently travelling on work business. The placid prairies of western Canada: thousands of miles from the front lines of the Inner German Border or the DMZ in Korea, or the insurgencies and ‘wars of national liberation’ in Africa, Central America, and Asia. Just north of the missile fields of North Dakota, well within the fallout ‘goose eggs’. Shilo was the host to West German forces starting in 1974. May 8, 2013. May 8, 2013. Canada and the Cold War. Tactical Nuclear ...
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons Use versus Japan in 1945? – Atomic Express
http://www.atomicexpress.net/2013/03/30/tactical-nuclear-weapons-use-versus-japan-in-1945
Journeys into Cold War History. Tactical Nuclear Weapons Use versus Japan in 1945? A review of Michael D. Gordin’s Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War. Princeton University Press, 2007). The centrality of nuclear weapons to the Cold War is unquestioned. Indeed, the centrality of nuclear weapons in ending the Second World War is equally unquestioned. Michael Gordin’s Five Days in August. March 30, 2013. Secret Soviet Nuclear Waste Dumping and Submarine K-27. About Dr. Maloney. Sovie...
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Nucs at Royal Netherlands Air Force Volkel Air Base (Finally) Confirmed – Atomic Express
http://www.atomicexpress.net/2013/06/10/nucs-at-royal-netherlands-air-force-volkel-air-base-finally-confirmed
Journeys into Cold War History. Nucs at Royal Netherlands Air Force Volkel Air Base (Finally) Confirmed. Munitions Support Squadron and its predecessor organizations, facts confirmed long, long ago. Thanks to Fine Art America. For the RNALF F-104 painting pic. Thanks to FAS for the overhead of Kleine Brogel. June 10, 2013. June 11, 2013. Hunting Down the Firefox. The Cold War Edward Snowden: The Fellwock Ramparts Interview on the NSA, 1972. About Dr. Maloney. Blame the Reds: The B-52 crash and BROKEN ARR...
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Red Eagle, Top Gun – Atomic Express
http://www.atomicexpress.net/2012/08/30/red-eagle-top-gun
Journeys into Cold War History. Red Eagle, Top Gun. Special access programmes are intriguing, especially for historians. The names are in some cases inadvertently humorous. In 2006 the US Air Force declassified some of its many compartmented programmes. One was called CONSTANT PEG. And then there were the HAVES: HAVE DONOUNUT, HAVE DRILL, HAVE FERRY (do two HAVEs make a whole? TES operated around 27 Soviet-bloc aircraft. Some were used for static displays in a site called the petting zoo. Colonel Gaillar...
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Hunting Down the Firefox – Atomic Express
http://www.atomicexpress.net/2013/05/18/hunting-down-the-firefox
Journeys into Cold War History. Hunting Down the Firefox. I was watching a documentary on Clint Eastwood the other night which made passing dismissive reference to a 1982 film he directed and starred in called Firefox. Ahhh yes. Firefox. Doomed to obscurity by a combination of the comparatively primitive special effects of the day coupled with a Cold War plot, this Clint Eastwood vehicle is not even consigned to late night television these days. Thomas was in some ways Lacarre without the cynicism and wi...
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Was This Convair’s Cold War Version of Nick Cook’s Nazi Foo Fighter? – Atomic Express
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Journeys into Cold War History. Was This Convair’s Cold War Version of Nick Cook’s Nazi Foo Fighter? Other authors have looked at the ‘Foo Fighter’ phenomenon, according to Wikipedia:. Mine called the Feuerball. Fireball). The device, operated by special SS. Units, apparently resembled a tortoise. Shell in shape, and flew by means of gas jets that spun like a Catherine wheel. Around the fuselage. Miniature klystron. According to Vesco, was two-fold. The appearance of this weird device inside a bomber...
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Cold War on Ice: The 1972 Summit Series – Atomic Express
http://www.atomicexpress.net/2012/12/09/cold-war-on-ice-the-1972-summit-series
Journeys into Cold War History. Cold War on Ice: The 1972 Summit Series. The façade of clean cut sportsmanship versus 1970s Slap Shot rink behaviour. Hockey was always a street game not meant for gentlemen. Expecting Canadian players brought up on those streets to behave like gentlemen when confronted with an obviously biased pair of referees was an absurd proposition and a great miscalculation by the Soviet propaganda machine. And the Department of External Affairs. Kiss my ass, robots! December 9, 2012.
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Soviet “Ferret” Flights: New Information Slowly Emerges – Atomic Express
http://www.atomicexpress.net/2012/12/28/soviet-“ferret”-flights-new-information-slowly-emerges
Journeys into Cold War History. Soviet Ferret Flights: New Information Slowly Emerges. Has taken the path less travelled and uncovered reports on Soviet ferret activity that prove to be rather intriguing. The use of military aircraft to aggressively probe air defence systems to collect data in so-called peacetime has been discussed in some detail in these blog pages. Indeed, ferreting was the primary Cold War military activity. Thanks to http:/ vliegtuighomepage.nl/il62.htm. December 28, 2012. The Cold W...
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Secret Soviet Nuclear Waste Dumping and Submarine K-27 – Atomic Express
http://www.atomicexpress.net/2013/01/24/secret-soviet-nuclear-waste-dumping-and-submarine-k-27
Journeys into Cold War History. Secret Soviet Nuclear Waste Dumping and Submarine K-27. The BBC is reporting. Oh, I forgot. Greenpeace only went after western targets back then. At least Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Society had the balls to take on Soviet whalers during the Cold War, but I digress. BBC reports that nineteen other Soviet ships loaded with nuclear waste were scuttled in the Kara Sea, as well as 14 nuclear reactors, and 17 000 other containers full of radioactive material. The Cold War ...
