I often wonder what if #NikitaKhrushchev and #HarryTruman had overlapped? They were not at all the type of characters that preceded and succeeded them. If not for the #DullesBrothers the #FirstColdWar of 1945-1970 might not have escalated past #KoreanWar.
#SpaceRace beats war.
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Mathias Rust, pictured standing next to his rented Cessna in Red Square.
28 May 1987: Mathias Rust, an 18-year-old West German pilot, evaded Soviet air defences and landed a rented Cessna in Red Square in #Moscow, Russia. #History #USSR #FirstColdWar
US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signing the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
26 May 1972: The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. #History #FirstColdWar
The mushroom cloud from the detonation of a hydrogen bomb above Bikini Atoll.
20 May 1956: Operation Redwing - the United States dropped its first airborne hydrogen bomb (with a yield of 3.8 megatons) over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. #History #FirstColdWar
Mushroom cloud from the UK's first hydrogen bomb test at Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean.
15 May 1957: The UK tested its first hydrogen bomb at Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean. #History #FirstColdWar
Seventeen American and eight British aircraft crashed during the operation to supply the city of West Berlin with food, fuel, and other essentials.
A total of 101 fatalities were recorded as a result of the operation, including 40 Britons and 31 Americans. #BerlinAirLift #FirstColdWar
US Navy air and ground crews of Squadron VR-6 celebrating the end of the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin.
12 May 1949: The Soviet Union lifted its blockade of #Berlin which had begun in April 1948. #History #FirstColdWar
FBI Mugshot of Aldrich Ames
28 April 1994: Former #CIA counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames entered a guilty plea to charges of selling US secrets to the Soviet Union and Russia. #History #USA #FirstColdWar
Portrait photograph of Bernard Baruch
16 April 1947: Bernard Baruch first used the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the USA and USSR. #History #FirstColdWar
