Cold War: Duck and Cover
Backyard bunkers, prairie missile fields, spy tradecraft, and rocket fever — the decades America watched the sky and rehearsed the unthinkable.
15 narrated stories — read them here, or hear them all in the app.
The Greenbrier
Under the Resort, a Government in Waiting
A grand resort hid a Cold War refuge for Congress.
Malmstrom Air Force Base
When Ten Missiles Went Quiet
A Cold War failure at Malmstrom that still echoes.
Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex
The Pyramid Built to Guard Missiles
A Cold War fortress rose on the prairie, then barely had time to serve.
Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation
From Bunker to Memory Vault
A Cold War bunker becomes a sanctuary for American sound and image.
Offutt Air Force Base
Bellevue Beside the Nuclear Nerve Center
How Bellevue came to live beside a base at the center of Cold War command.
Naval Reactors Facility
Where Nautilus Learned to Breathe
How a dry-land reactor in Idaho trained the Navy for nuclear submarines.
Nevada National Security Site
When Las Vegas Watched the Bomb
Cold War blasts turned distant tests into a surreal Las Vegas spectacle.
St. Louis
The Day St. Louis Counted Baby Teeth
How shed teeth turned fallout into evidence people could not ignore.
Kansas City
When Kansas City Became the Nightmare
A television movie turned a familiar place into a national reckoning.
Westminster College
When Fulton Heard the Iron Curtain Fall
How one speech turned a Missouri college into a world-historical landmark.
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
A Piece of Berlin in Grand Rapids
How one Cold War artifact links a hometown museum to world history.
International Spy Museum
Real Tradecraft, Told for Curious Minds
How real spy tools and Cold War stories become legible for families.
Onizuka Air Force Station
The Blue Cube and the Space War Next Door
How a Sunnyvale base made local ground crews part of military space history.
Huntsville
How Huntsville Became Rocket City
Von Braun’s work helped transform Huntsville through missiles, spaceflight, and consequence.
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
How Houston Became Mission Control
A city’s political win became America’s human spaceflight home.
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