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The Duga Radar: Cold War Superweapon or Giant Soviet Failure?
In the 1970s and ’80s, a haunting tapping sound disrupted global radio signals—traced back to a massive, secret radar in Soviet Ukraine. The Duga radar, part of an over-the-horizon missile detection ...
Throughout the Cold War's iciest decades, the top-secret Parcae project, shrouded in secrecy for over 30 years, provided the U.S. with unmatched capabilities in electronic eavesdropping. This covert ...
The goal of the Texas Towers radar facilities off the East Coast was to protect America against a sneak attack by the Soviet Union or Cuba in the 1960s. WJAR-TV's Betty Adams had exclusive access to ...
SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, Calif. (KGO) -- A two yearlong restoration project has just been completed to preserve a Bay Area landmark high atop the Santa Cruz Mountains. The old radar tower on Mount ...
Keith Mossman, RAF Cold War Warrior whose signal stations helped intercept Soviet bombers – obituary
Group Captain Keith Mossman, who has died aged 96, served in a wide variety of air defence posts as a pilot, controller, and commander at the height of the Cold War. The son of a First World War ...
Strings of radars stretching across Canada were built to give early warnings of Soviet bombers coming over the Arctic. The region now faces a new era of militarization. Strings of radars stretching ...
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