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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.

The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Ohio travels through the Hood Canal in 1982 near its home port of Bangor, Washington.

How Soviet people who are Communists will come to the United States, rape our women, and kill our men.

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

The fear of the spread of communism to the United States

An image of the Plesetsk Soyuz-2 launch complex in 2006. Formerly a secret ICBM base, Plesetsk has been transformed into a civilian cosmodrome for commercial launches.

A picture of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. The last Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev oversaw the implementation of glasnost and perestroika, as well as the challenges and final decline of Soviet power. His resignation marked…

A map of the different Soviet administrative divisions as they existed in 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall and two years prior to the Soviet Union's dissolution in December of 1991.

This image is of a Soviet R-7 Semyorka Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Developed in the late 1950s, the R-7 would become the base platform for the later Soyuz rocket booster in the 1960s. This system would go on to become one of the most…