These posts have always been about the Cold War, but this time it’s a little more explicit – possibly inspired by a couple of programmes which aired recently on the BBC.
early warning
Tupolev Tu-126 ‘Moss’ Airborne Early Warning
Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star Airborne Early Warning
Avro Shacketon AEW.2
DYE-3, one of the US Distant Early Warning line stations in Greenland
A Texas Tower, a US offshore radar facility
HMS Agincourt, a Battle class destroyer after conversion to a radar picket
USS Spinax, a submarine converted to a radar picket
first strike
A Pershing missile tactical erector and launcher
A Soviet SA-4 Ganef surface-to-air missile system
French Pluton missiles on their transport-erector-launcher platforms
Soviet S-300V, carrying SA-12 Gladiator/Giant air defence missiles
Titan missile base under construction
Titan ICBM
fallout
A fallout shelter
A family-sized economy fallout shelter
A personal bomb shelter
Everything you ever needed to know about fallout shelters
It Doesn't Have To Be Right... 
November 29, 2013 at 6:31 pm
Fantastic shots of the bomb shelters with everyone looking so happy. And the Texas Tower: I’ve noticed this bowled arrangement of chequered balls on living room table-tops in style magazines. Is this fashion or a clever spy trick?