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One Step from Nuclear WarThe Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm), meeting in the White House Cabinet Room, sorted through intelligence and advised…
Disposition of the U.S. Pacific Fleet 7 Dec 1941Detailed map outlining the movements of the US Pacific Fleet of naval vessels the day of the attacks on Pearl Harbor.
Khrushchev on Cuban Crisis 1962Speech by Soviet leader Khrushchev in December 1962 covering the causes and consequences of the Cuban Crisis. (Catalogue ref: FO 371/171934)
Howard Sarty's letter to his wife YvetteSarty discusses a movie he watched as well as his encounter with local German woman.
USS Arizona, at height of fire, following Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, HawaiiDeveloped film image of the USS Arizona engulfed in flames immediately following the attacks from the Japanese navy. In the foreground of the image…
A 1961 American political cartoon published after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space when he completed a 108-minute orbital flight. The Soviets used this…
Hiroo OnadaProfile photo of Hiroo Onoda as a young officer.
16 year old German soldier crying after being captured by the AlliesA sixteen-year-old German soldier, Hans-Georg Henke, cries being captured by the US 9th Army in Germany on April 3, 1945
A 1961 model of Explorer I, the first American satellite to orbit the earth.Explorer I was launched on January 31, 1958, four months after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite.
Letter, Kim II Sung to Comrade Stalin I.V., 1951Letter from Kim Il Sung to Stalin informing him of lead shipments from the DPRK to the
Soviet Union and China.