Cold War Images

This collection of images offers a retrospective insight into the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ created during the Cold War.

The research and development of nuclear weapons during this period lead to a series of doomsday devices which stood to threatened the existence of mankind.

With just one atomic bomb, the world was to witness the sheer power and devastation these weapons poses – an event which literally shuck the world and helped to end one of the most tragic wars in history.

Atlas-D ICBM 1959

B-1B Strategic Bomber 1986

B-2 Strategic Bomber 1989

B-36 Bomb Bay 1948

B-36 Strategic Bomber 1948

B-47 Strategic Bomber 1951

B-52 Strategic Bomber 1955

Blast Door, Minuteman II ICBM Control Buncker 1965

Bockscar (Nagasaki B-29 Bomber) 1945

Commander’s Station, Minuteman II Bunker 1965

Deputy Commander’s Station, Minuteman II Bunker 1965

Fat Man (Nagasaki Atomic Bomb) 1945

Inertial Guidance Module, Peacekeeper (MX) ICBM 1986

Little Boy (Hiroshima Atomic Bomb) 1945

M65 280mm Atomic Cannon 1951

Midgetman ICBM Hardened Mobile Launcher 1988

Minuteman II ICBM Control Bunker 1965

Mk-6 Atomic Bomb 1951

Mk-17 Thermonuclear Bomb 1954

The Gadget (Trinity Atomic Bomb) 1945

USS Lewis and Clark Ballistic Missile Submarine

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