Weapons of the Cold War by Elena Kent28

1945, U.S drops bombs on Japan

eakent28_1 — 2023-11-02 18:24:40 UTC

U.S drops two atomic bombs bombs on Japan on the cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the two bombings from the U.S and the Soviets Japan decided to finally surrender

June 1948 USSR tries to take complete power over Berlin

eakent28_1 — 2023-11-03 14:54:56 UTC

The USSR cut off all service traffic to West Berlin. The US responded with aircrafts with supplies and food daily to the city, this lasted till 1949. In all the western allies had delivered 2.3 million tons of food and supplies to West Berlin during that time.

First Thermonuclear Bomb

eakent28_1 — 2023-11-03 20:08:04 UTC

1952, On October 1915 hours 7:15 GMT time the U.S tested it first Thermonuclear bomb on a island only 3,000 miles away from Hawaii.

Invasion from the North to the South

eakent28_1 — 2023-11-06 20:22:17 UTC

In 1950 North Koreans invaded the south.

The south was not prepared and was very quickly overrun.

1953 The no mans land was created in between the two countries.

eakent28_1 — 2023-11-06 20:41:13 UTC

North and South Korea signed an armistice. They formed a demilitarized zone in between both countries.

1957 Soviets launched a satellite

eakent28_1 — 2023-11-06 20:49:26 UTC

In 1957 the soviets launches a Sputnik. The worlds first artificial satellite.

1958 Race to the Moon

eakent28_1 — 2023-11-06 21:14:45 UTC

The US and the Soviets race to see who can be first to the moon

"Big Ivan" Bomb

eakent28_1 — 2023-11-07 19:49:08 UTC

RDS-220, also known as "Big Ivan" to the Soviets and "Tzar Bomba" to the US, was the biggest atomic bomb ever made. It was designed to be a 100-megaton hydrogen bomb, but when it was tested, its yield dropped by half. On October 30, 1961, the bomb was dropped from an altitude of 34,000 feet above the test site on the island of NovayaZemlya.

Berliners caught escaping, 1961

eakent28_1 — 2023-11-07 19:55:07 UTC

By 1961, enormous quantities of East Berliners were escaping through the open line to West Berlin. Late on August 12, with an end goal to resist of turncoats, Soviet Head Khrushchev allowed the East German government to stop the progression of exiled people by shutting its boundary for good.

Titan ll Deployed

eakent28_1 — 2023-11-08 14:57:50 UTC

The Titan ll could be launched in 58 sec from its underground base, it carried W-53 warhead and there was a yield of 9 megatons 9,000,000,000 tons of TNT.

The missile was 103 feet tall and 10 feet in diameter.

5,500 miles was the range of the Titan ll, there were 54 Titans deployed in groups of eighteen. In 1963 all 54 missiles were on alert during December.

Last Titan ll Comes Off Alert

eakent28_1 — 2023-11-08 15:01:07 UTC

The last active Titan ll on May 5 1987 came off alert. This day ended the biggest land based missile in the US arsenal.