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Plans for the expansion of the Bangor Navy Base in 1975 to better support ballistic missile submarines.

A Trident-II missile being launched from a submarine during a test. Used for nuclear deterrence during the height of Cold War tensions, the Trident-II was intended to be carried by Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines, which were based in Bangor,…

A Trident-II Missile during a test launch. This group of missiles was the cause of a number of protests against the Bangor Submarine Base during the 1970s and 1980s.

How the Soviet system is seen as peaceful, yet is deadly for those involved.

Women dancing in Tashkent

An unnamed Ground Zero protester, circa 1984

From KUOW, "An American catcher boat approaches a Soviet processing vessel (1979)."