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Allan Hailstone @allhails.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

West Berlin, 26 December 1964. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing.). #Berlin

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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Meredith effect- turning hot radiator exhaust into useful thrust and cancelling out the radiator's drag- was one reason the P-51 was about 30 mph faster than the Spitfire with the same Merlin engine. The twist? Irishman F.W. Meredith was a Soviet spy. (photo: Bob Burch/CC)

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Avro 698 landing at Woodford after its maiden flight on 30th August 1952

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#OTD 1962: A US U-2 spy plane takes 928 photographs during 6 mins over Cuba. The images reveal Soviet nuclear missile sites under construction. Within days, Kennedy & Khrushchev are locked in the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War. The Cuban Missile Crisis has begun.

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Matthew Bunn @matthew-bunn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Second episode dropped today! The dawn of the nuclear age. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

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How We Unleashed the Nuclear Age

Podcast Episode · Face-Off · S4 E2 · 50m

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This close up of a Vulcan is quite menacing!

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Vulcan production line - I like the workers on the wings, they give a good sense of scale.

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Getting a bit into 50s/60s nuclear, 'nuke town' aesthetic...

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

617 Sqn Vulcan B2 XL361, RAF Scampton, 1964

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Macron after watching the French Navy launch a new M51.3 ballistic missile from the nuclear submarine 'Le Vigilant'. Macron: “To be free, you must be feared. And to be feared, you must be powerful.” #nuclear

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🇫🇷🚀 Macron watches France conduct the first launch of its new M51.3 ballistic missile from the nuclear submarine Le Vigilant. He said the test demonstrated the credibility of France’s nuclear deterrent: “To be free, you must be feared. And to be feared, you must be powerful.”

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

RAF Vulcan at RCAF Goose Bay. I love seeing Vulcans operating outside of the UK. #nuclear #coldwar #aviation #history

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Two legends - first flights only 11 years apart. #aviation #history

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Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On this day in 1968, the prototype Boeing 747 jet airliner is rolled out at Everett, Washington for the press and representatives of the airlines that had ordered the plane. It made its first flight on February 9, 1969. The last 747 was delivered from Boeing on January 31, 2023.

Rollout of the first Boeing 747, September 30, 1968.

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News Of The War Pod @newsofthewar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New episode, this Friday… Join @merrynwalters.uk and @andyaitch.bsky.social this Friday for our second instalment of our Less Expected Destinations series. This week we go to Britains oldest ally, Portugal. Find out how they navigate neutrality during the war linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Victor dragging some Lightnings!

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The Aviationist @theaviationist.com · 30/09/2026

U.S. Navy Advances New W93 Nuclear Warhead for Trident Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles The W93 warhead and Mk7 reentry body assembly are part of the Trident II D5 Life Extension (D5LE2) which will modernize the sea-based leg of the nuclear triad. Story: theaviationist.com/2026/09/29/u...

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U.S. Navy Advances New W93 Nuclear Warhead for Trident Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles

The W93 warhead and Mk7 reentry body assembly are part of the Trident II D5 Life Extension (D5LE2) which will modernize the sea-based leg of the nuclear

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I found a few more entries in the ever-popular "babushkas buffing bombs" genre of photography... (*I recognize that not all are authentic babushkas, but the alliteration was too great for me to resist, I apologize)

mopping RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic bomb

polishing RDS-4, the first Soviet tactical nuclear weapon

more buffing of RDS-1, with attention paid t the distinctive eye-like radar altitude sensors that give it such a kawaii face

a non-babushka cleans behind RDS-1's ears

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Royal Air Force Museum @rafmuseum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

LDN: Aviation history after dark! 🌙✈️ On 23 October, go behind the barriers, explore the RAF’s humanitarian work, access our Sea King cockpit and get an extraordinary close-up view of the Lancaster cockpit, all at our London site. 🎟️ 18+ | £100 | Limited places bit.ly/4ADHIu1 #Lates #HangarNights

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The #Gdańsk shipyard should have thundered with 10,000 workers. Instead, Bogdan heard “deafening quiet”—then saw columns of strikers marching as the movement that became #Solidarity began. Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode475/

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Vickers Valiant advertsing literature

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today in 1975, the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex at Nekoma, North Dakota, became fully operational, defending 150 Minuteman III ICBMs at Grand Forks AFB with 30 Spartan and 70 Sprint antiballistic missiles—armed with 5-Mt W71 warheads and 1-kt W66 enhanced-radiation warheads, respectively.

An aerial color photograph of the Stanley R. Mickelesen Safeguard Complex at Nekoma, North Dakota, the only operational Safeguard site ever built (10 were originally envisioned when the program was announced in 1969). The Missile Site Radar is the pyramid-shaped building in the background at center (a cooling pond is behind and to the right). The small square launch area in the foreground contains launchers for 16 Sprint antiballistic missiles. The larger rectangular area immediately behind it contains launchers for 30 Spartan antiballistic missiles.

A black and white graphic and map showing the location of the various facilities comprising the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex in relation to each other and to Grand Forks Air Force Base, as well as how the system was designed to conduct long- and short-range intercepts of incoming ICBM reentry vehicles using Spartan and Sprint antiballistic missiles, respectively.

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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today in birds I did not see in my garden. The Mountain bluebird.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

De Havilland Mosquito, the most versatile plane of #WW2. #HISTORY

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was great to meet up with some Cold War Conversations listeners at the RAF Museum Midlands yesterday. I hope you all enjoyed the tour and the chats. Further meetups are in the pipeline. Join our free membership to stay up to date here www.patreon.com/cw/coldwarpod

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Because the Nijmegen Waal Bridge was not already captured on 19 September 1944 for 30 Corps to advance over and relieve John Frost and his men at the Arnhem Rhine Bridge, operation Market Garden failed. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(September 1945.) The first time around 1200 Oosterbeek school children are laying flowers on the graves of the fallen soldiers during operation Market Garden. (The flower laying became a tradition and is for families the emotional highlight of the every year's commemoration.)

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today in 1992 at the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducted DIVIDER, a low-yield (less than 20 kilotons) underground nuclear weapon test. Bipartisan legislation imposing a 9-month test moratorium signed by President George H.W. Bush 9 days later made this the last full-scale US test—to date.

An official color photograph showing the canister containing the DIVIDER nuclear test device hanging from a tall crane and attached to thick diagnostic cables before being lowered into the test shaft, located under the temporary tall semi-enclosed tower in the background (erected to protect the open shaft and hide it and test preparations from overhead eyes).

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Canadians, and some others, have a “thing” about the Avro Arrow.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I no longer hang out on ex-Twitter, I missed this worrying declaration from the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration last week. This new policy emphasizing building new nuclear warheads rather than maintaining the 3,700 we already have has not been debated or approved by Congress.

A September 14, 2026, tweet from Brandon Williams:

“The era of primarily emphasizing Stockpile Stewardship is over.

Going forward we will be defined primarily as an organization focused on weapons production.”

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