US bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the same as those which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, heading to bomb Osaka in 1945. United States Army Air Force August 2025 marked the 80th ...

A dramatic Cold War moment saw US President Harry Truman halt Britain's planned bombing of Tel Aviv in 1949, preventing a major escalation between Western allies during the Arab-Israeli war.

Declassified records from the early 1970s show that 38 towns and cities across the UK were identified as probable nuclear ...

This spring, the Royal Signals Museum in Blandford Forum, will open its doors on a brand new immersive and interactive exhibition: The Cold War, in the Shadow of the Bomb.

"Cold War Cornhuskers" relates the day-by-day, month-by-month history of the 307th Bomb Wing at Lincoln Air Force Base during the hectic days of the Cold War. For the first time, the inside story of a ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.