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Cold War

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The sensational defection of Stalin’s daughter to the US during the Cold War

By Stephen Ruiz

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The United States created rules for encountering a Yeti during the Cold War

By Blake Stilwell

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The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 days that almost ended the world

By Blake Stilwell

This No. 1 overall draft pick became the NFL’s MVP while in the Army

By Stephen Ruiz

How this Air Force spy plane traveled from coast to coast in record time

By Stephen Ruiz

The secret telegram that defined the Cold War before it began

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Cuban Missile Crisis

The ‘Gray Ghosts’ of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Daniel Tobias Flint

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An Air Force plane crashed in Death Valley during the Cold War (and is still there)

By Stephen Ruiz

Atoms for Peace

How Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ initiative started Iran’s nuclear program

By Stephen Ruiz

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Curtis LeMay: World War II bomber, cold warrior, and judo champion

By Blake Stilwell

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena

Two veterans shaped the UFO phenomenon from a joke into real federal policy

By Daniel Tobias Flint

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7 unbelievable secret spy weapons of the Cold War

Amos Chapple, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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Aldrich Ames, the Cold War’s deadliest CIA mole, completes life sentence

By Blake Stilwell

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The 1952 UFO Washington sighting that upended decades of denial

By Daniel Tobias Flint

A-10 Pilot's Coloring Book

The A-10 training guide from the 1970s was a hilarious coloring book

By Blake Stilwell

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The CIA secretly created an undetectable ‘heart attack gun’

By Blake Stilwell

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A secret Cold War unit was the basis for today’s special operations

By Blake Stilwell

The CIA declassified these 11 Russian jokes about the Soviet Union

By Blake Stilwell

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Why the SR-71 Blackbird is the only aircraft with the SR designation

By Blake Stilwell

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8 presidents who actually saw combat in a big way

By Blake Stilwell