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“Aircraft 53-1876A Has Lost A Device”

Author: clark rumrill

How the U.S. Air Force came to drop an A-bomb on South Carolina

Mr. Smith Goes Underground

Author: Thomas Mallon

The strangest of all Cold War relics also offers a clue to why we won it

Visiting The Cold War Today

Author: Phil Patton

From Berlin to Washington to Area 51, landmarks of the era are opening up to tourists.

Cents And Sensibility

Author: Eugene Dorgan

Why we hate the new money.

Intimate Enemies

Author: Joseph J. Ellis

When John Adams was elected President, and Thomas Jefferson Vice President, each came to see the other as a traitor. Out of their enmity grew our modern political system.

The Twenty-Second Great Battle

Author: Edward L. Rowny

Gen. MacArthur designated the author as engineer of the Marine invasion at Wonsan, and told him to accompany the first wave. This would sharpen his mind, MacArthur said, "like an imminent hanging."

The Day We Shot Down The U-2

Author: Sergei Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev’s son remembers a great turning point of the Cold War, as seen from behind the Iron Curtain