Cold War

The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact).

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NARF Executive Director John E. Echohawk to speak at NMAI Symposium celebrating Senator Daniel K. Inouye - Native American Rights Fund

NARF Executive Director John E. Echohawk to speak at NMAI Symposium celebrating Senator Daniel K. Inouye - Native American Rights Fund : Native American Rights Fund

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American politian US Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (1908 - 1957) speaks from behind a bank of microphones, mid 20th century. (Photo by Photoquest/Getty Images)

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Robert Blakeley, whose fallout shelter sign was a grim reminder of nuclear war, dies at 95

The Marine veteran oversaw the design of the yellow-and-black signs in 1961.

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Atomic explosion at Nevada Test Site. (Colorized Photo) 1957

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Family Shopping for a Fallout Shelter - July, 1961 [[MORE]] This photo was from a local paper in Northwest Indiana called the News Dispatch. I volunteer at the county museum, and they recently gave us all of their negatives. There is quite a wealth of photos going back to the early 1950s.

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Hungary routs Russia to book spot in semifinals

Sixty-one years after the infamous "Blood in the Water" game against the Soviet Union, Hungary routed Russia 14-5 to book a place in the water polo semifinals at the world championships on Tuesday.

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Fidel Castro dies; used sports to promote Cuba

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has died at 90. The iconic and polemic figure in world politics often used sports and athletic events as ways to promote the island's identity and nationalism.

Jackie Kennedy's Bloodstained Suit . . . & the Story Behind It: We all have come to know the iconic pink suit Jackie Kennedy wore during the assassination of her husband John F.

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Jackie Kennedy's Bloodstained Suit . . . & the Story Behind It: We all have come to know the iconic pink suit Jackie Kennedy wore during the assassination of her husband John F.

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The 1956 Suez Crisis is widely remembered as a critical event in post-war British history, which helped bring to an end the era of Britain as a global empire and superpower. Sixty years on, Andrew Jon

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Surviving a Nuclear Attack with Spam, and Other Images from Cold War Fallout Shelters

1950s his photograph depicts a woman as she takes an inventory of supplies for her household's fallout shelter.

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10 Amazing Women Who Turned the Tide of History

Nancy Grace Roman (b. 1925)-In 1959 — the first year of NASA's operation — the agency tasked Roman with creating a program that coordinated satellites, sounding rockets, balloons and ground research to support space observation for half a century. Until 1979, she also served in the NASA Office of Space Science as the Chief of the Astronomy and Relativity Programs. She is also known as the "Mother of Hubble" for her efforts in the development of the Hubble Space Telescope

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10 Amazing Women Who Turned the Tide of History

Chien-Shiung Wu-While working on the Manhattan Project at Columbia University, Wu contributed to the development of a process that separated uranium metal into isotopes through diffusion, increasing the amount of uranium that could serve as fuel for an atomic bomb. In 1957, Wu and two of her colleagues at Columbia University overturned a law of symmetry in physics, but when their discovery was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics that year, her contributions were overlooked

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