5 stories tagged cold-war, newest first.
25 points by robtherobber | 0 comments
Mexico Solidarity Media article on CIA collaboration with Mexican right-wing forces ahead of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre of students.
688 points by robertvc | 286 comments
Wikipedia article on the 1979 escape of two families from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon.
781 points by Vincent_Yan404 | 347 comments
A Substack memoir about growing up in a classified Chinese atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert, a city known as "404" that was never on maps.
351 points by sklargh | 59 comments
A Computers Are Bad newsletter article by J. B. Crawford on the communications systems, including HICS, used for Minuteman missile sites.
333 points by bookofjoe | 305 comments
Aviation Geek Club article on the SR-71 Blackbird's astro-inertial navigation system, nicknamed R2-D2, which tracked stars even in daylight.