Cold War Museum Newsletter

How intelligence informs our foreign policy, diplomacy, and military action.

The Cold War Times, latest newsletter from the Cold War Museum, is available.¹ It includes:

1. Reflections of a Black Cat Commander.

2. The U-2 and Air Refueling

Book Reviews:

The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War by Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko;

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley;

Listen Up!: Stories of Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, the Pentagon, CNN and Beyond by Perry M. Smith, Jr.;

The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy by Andrew F. Krepinevich and Barry D. Watts;

Looking Back at the Cold War: 30 Veterans and a Patrol Plane Commander Remember by Don Stanton; and

Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World by Giles Milton.

The Cold War Museum was founded in 1996 by Francis Gary Powers Jr., son of the U-2 Pilot, and John Welch to preserve Cold War history, honor Cold War veterans, and educate future generations about the Cold War and its legacy. 

Since 2011, the Museum has been located at Vint Hill, Virginia, on the grounds of the former Vint Hill Farms Station, also known as Monitoring Station No. 1, which was a Top Secret Army signals intelligence base during WWII and the Cold War.

Collections include:

• signals intelligence (SIGINT),

• image intelligence (IMINT),

• the history of Vint Hill during both WWII and the Cold War,

• Cold War Berlin,

• Civil Defense,

• atomic weapons,

• Liberty and Pueblo incidents,

• Cold War cultural and Olympic competitions,

• Strategic Air Command,

• submarine detection (SOSUS),

• Cuban Missile Crisis,

• STASI (East German secret police), and

• Soviet and East German disinformation campaigns. 

Canada has one, too:

The Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum

1. Cold War Times, spring 2022.