This is a blog about world history in general, world war ii, i, vietnam war, middle ages, boer war, weapons, and biographies of famous people, etc.
The SM-65 Atlas was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) which was developed by General Dynamics (Convair Division) for the US Air Force. It was deployed in silos in continental US as a deterring nuclear weapon during the Cold War. Designed to verify the structure and propulsion system, the Atlas first flew in 1957 as the [...]
The PGM-17 Thor was an intermediate range ballistic missile used by the US Air Force during the Cold War. It was the first operational ballistic missile produced and deployed by United States (deployed in the UK). Thor is the Norse god of Thunder. Although the PGM-17 Thor was developed by the United States Air Force, [...]
The W49 was a thermonuclear 1.45-megaton warhead used by the United States of America during the Cold War on the Atlas, Thor, Jupiter, and Titan I ballistic missile systems. W49 warheads were built from 1958 by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and were in service until 1963. A few warheads were kept in the US arsenal [...]
Checkpoint Charlie was a border-crossing check point in Berlin during the Cold War. Situated on Friedrichstraße (Friedrich Street), at the junction with Zimmerstraße and Mauerstraße, in the American Sector, Check Point Charlie was opened by the end of August 1961, after the Soviet had begun the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961. [...]
The Great Leap Forward was a state-directed economic policy applied in China by Mao Tse-tung between 1958 and 1963. The purpose of this communist plan was to deeply transform the country’s traditional economic and social structure from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of agriculturalization, industrialization, and collectivization. The Great [...]
The Sino-Soviet Split was the deterioration of relations between the Soviet Union and Communist China (the People’s Republic of China) during the Cold War. Although they were both Marxist, the two countries had been ideologically drifting apart since 1956. In 1961, the Chinese Communists formally denounced the Soviet leaders as "the Revisionist Traitor Group of Soviet [...]
