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Duck And Cover Class Drill

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Survival In Atomic Bombing

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A-Bomb Protection

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FILE PHOTO 40th Anniversary Of Cuban Missile Crisis

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A Polaris A3 Missile Test Launch

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The 'Licorne' French nuclear test explosion at Fangataufa Atoll in French Polynesia, 3rd July 1970.

Licorne French Nuclear Test

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Build A Family Fallout Shelter Now

Control room at nuclear missile base, outside of Moscow.

Nuclear Missile Base Control Room

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Soviet Russian propaganda poster delivering a warning to the USA not to meddle with atomic weapons. The beginning of the Cold War is represented in...

A warning to the USA.

American General HP Storke and other military personnel, having emerged from their foxholes to observe the atomic bomb explosion at the Nevada...

Nevada Proving Grounds, 1952

Nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll 1946.

Nuclear weapons test.

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H-Bomb On London

Pamphlet titled "Protection from the Atomic Bomb" utilizes a red background and minimal typographic cover, circa 1950.

Protection From The Atomic Bomb

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Control room at nuclear missile base outside of Moscow.

Nuclear Missile Base Control Room

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You And The Atomic Bomb

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Nuclear weapon on the background of the North Korean flag

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Cutaway display of a concrete masonry basement fallout shelter with an exercise bike, television and library, 1950s.

Basement Bomb Fallout Shelter Display

Housewife model smiles while posing with a display of bomb shelter supplies during the Cold War, 1950s.

Housewife Posing With Bomb Shelter Supplies

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The Hydrogen Bomb. pic: 1952. A picture of the thermo-nuclear device tested by the U.S. at the Elugelab test island in the Marshall Islands . The picture is taken from 50 miles distant and at 12,000 feet shows the early stage of the cloud formation which

Cold War museum. Nuclear rocket missile warhead model figure at garden.

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President Reagan points at a map of the Soviet Union as he speaks to listeners about the need to control nuclear missiles.

Ronald Reagan With Map of Soviet Union

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Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll.

Mushroom cloud with ships below.

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Two Atomic Rescue Workers Wear Protective Masks, Suits, And Gloves

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A Handley Page Victor Bomber Armed With Nuclear Missile

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Protect Your Family from Atomic Bomb Fallout

Silo with rocket head with four MIRVs underneath, at nuclear missile base outside of Moscow.

Soldiers Look Down into Missile Silo

1950s ATOMIC TEST SHOWING THE BLAST AND MUSHROOM CLOUD AT THE NEVADA PROVING GROUNDS

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An informational brochure titled "Your Guide for Defense Against Natural Disaster and the H-Bomb" shows an illustrated map of the Bay Area in...

Bronxville, NY: John C. Legler is a man who likes to be prepared. Beneath his Bronxville home he has constructed a steel and concrete shelter stocked...

Youth Check Supplies in Fallout Shelter

The Civil Defense School in Easingwold, Yorkshire, is giving the press a demonstration of the latest equipment and practice drills taught in the...

Defense School Trainees Test For Radioactivity During Training Session

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Denver Post Archives

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1950s ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION MUSHROOM CLOUD

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Neptune U.S. Patrol plane flies over a Soviet freighter during the Cuban missile crisis in this 1962 photograph. Former Russian and U.S. Officials...

FILE PHOTO 40th Anniversary Of Cuban Missile Crisis

Book called The Atom Bomb shows an illustration of an explosion with people running away and a woman screaming, circa 1945.

Illustration depicting a family in their back yard underground bomb shelter, early 1960s.

Illustration Of Underground Bomb Shelter

The nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution leaving Gareloch, Scotland, 1977.

Nuclear Submarine HMS Resolution

Walt Bilicke and Eugene Spencer checking radioactivity levels on freeway over Beaudry street, where count was 66 per second of gamma radiation .

Atomic Energy (Radioactivity Check), 1951

American nuclear physicist and father of the atom bomb Robert Oppenheimer sits at a table with reporters at a press conference in the University of...

Oppenheimer Press Conference

23rd September 1949, American representative Warren Austin, the US Ambassador to the United Nations reading a newspaper headline with President...

Politics, USA, pic: 23rd September 1949, American representative Warren Austin, the US Ambassador to the United Nations reading a newspaper headline with President Truman having stated that Russia had exploded an Atom bomb

Architectural landscape of missile silo doors entrance at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold...

UK - Greenham Common - Cold war nuclear silo architecture

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