During drills we were told to retrieve our tags from a peg board and then crouch under our desks. Our city was within striking range from Cuba.

He is also known as the last Soviet citizen, and the only person to be launched from one country and landed in another.

In a college environmental studies class, my professor had a huge anti-nuclear war day and played a video for us with brightly colored animations, calling people ostriches for ignoring the problem. I believe it started with a little girl realizing there was a nuclear missile silo on her grandfather’s farm. I have looked everywhere for this and cannot find anything! It was very impactful.

This Egyptian historical piece, dating back to the early 1960s and specifically to the era of the United Arab Republic, is a pictorial record of the non-alignment policy adopted by President Gamal Abdel Nasser during that turbulent period of the Cold War.

Above the Arabic text on this card is an illustration of one of the most prominent and famous architectural landmarks in East Germany.

It includes seven original postage stamps. We find a stamp of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, alongside a stamp of the unity flag between Egypt and Syria issued in 1958, which symbolizes the peak of Arab nationalism. Next to these two Egyptian stamps, we find five classic American stamps bearing the images of historic US presidents and figures, most notably Thomas Jefferson, Eisenhower, George C. Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Wright Brothers.

The explanation for this apparent contradiction lies in the pragmatism of the collectors' market itself. US president stamps were among the most popular and valuable stamps among collectors worldwide.

Meanwhile, the Egyptian stamps and the mention of East Germany carried the intended political message: that Egypt under Nasser was a state that extended its hand to both East and West alike, and had close diplomatic relations with East Germany, which was among the first countries recognized by Cairo in response to Western support for Israel.

This card gains its immense historical value because it documents a precise and sensitive time period, the years preceding the 1967 war, before Egyptian-American relations deteriorated sharply under President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The text in Arabic in the right reads as follows:

"The beautiful postage stamps from the German Democratic Republic, which are wished by everyone in various parts of the world.

With the regards of the staff in 'Al-Majalla' (The Magazine).

Ask your local stamp sellers for it."

Isn’t that like having a civil war sub with a confederate flag logo?

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November 1982, 10 year old Samantha noticed a Time magazine cover featuring the newly appointed Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov. The girl was concerned about the threat of nuclear war she asked her mother why no one simply asked Andropov if he wanted war. Samantha's mother encouraged her to write to him directly.Samantha sent a simple, earnest letter asking Andropov if he intended to conquer the world or prevent nuclear destruction to global surprise, her letter was published in the Soviet newspaper Pravda, and in April 1983, she received a reply from Andropov inviting her to see the Soviet Union. The Goodwill Tour of the Soviet Union in 1983, Samantha traveled to the Soviet Union with her parents for a two-week tour as an official guest of the government she began acting 1984 Disney Channel political aired a special Samantha Smith Goes to Washington: Campaign '84, where she interviewed presidential candidates. In 1985, she landed a co-starring role as Elizabeth Coleridge alongside Robert Wagner in the television drama series Lime Street.while returning home from filming segments for Lime Street, 13-year-old Samantha and her father, Arthur Smith, were killed in a plane crash. The commuter aircraft, Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808, missed the runway in rainy weather and struck trees near Auburn, Maine.Her death brought profound Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbavich and US Ronald Reagan together.

Turkish Land Force M48A1 tank.

Hello, I've been trying to find information about the Alert America convoy/exhibit, civil defense, and Bert the Turtle. I'm looking for newspaper serializations, pamphlets that would've been given out to people, educators, etc. I have seen the film and heard the radio broadcast as well as the red and white comic book of Bert. Anything else related would be appreciated too. Thank you.

Picked this up recently and had to do some research to figure out what I was looking at. The insignia on the front is the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP) — the organization that took over nuclear weapons custody from the Manhattan Project after WWII. Leslie Groves, the general who ran the Manhattan Project, was its first chief. They were responsible for storing, securing, and handling America’s nuclear arsenal through the early Cold War until transitioning to the Defense Atomic Support Agency in 1959.

The lighter dates to 1963 — confirmed by the dot code on the bottom (two dots left, one right of the Zippo script). That puts it one year after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Would love to hear from anyone who knows more about the AFSWP or has seen one of these before.

Hi, here are some photos of my grandfather. He was born in 1942, so based on how old he looks this was maybe the early/mid 60s.

I don’t know much at all regarding the details, aside from him mentioning Germany a couple times. I would love to know anything that anyone may recognize.

Hi, here are some photos of my grandfather. He was born in 1942, so based on how old he looks this was maybe the early/mid 60s.

I don’t know much at all regarding the details, aside from him mentioning Germany a couple times. I would love to know anything that anyone may recognize.