Cold War History

Time is Ticking: The Tale of the Doomsday Clock

75 feet under: Behind-the-Scenes in the Machine Room

This week we introduced a new member to our team: Teigan!She’s our new Marketing and Communications Coordinator! Here’s a few words about her first week.“My first week has been really inspiring! Everyone has been warm and welcoming and I’m feeling right at home...

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EIGHT: Arrival

Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksThree people. 62 photographs. Twelve days. 3,550 miles.  Santa Barbara to Ottawa. We’re here … Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum. [gallery type="rectangular"...

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SEVEN: Renewed Topographics

Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksAs a photography-obsessed teenage I used to covet the small selection of monographs the high school library dedicated to the medium. It was there in the sterile scholastic surrounds under the dull glow of neon light that I...

SIX: The Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex

Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksMinuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles were not the only nuclear-armed rockets lurking below the prairies of North Dakota. Watching over the state’s extensive cluster of Minutemans was the Stanley R. Mickelsen...

The Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex

FIVE: Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site

Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksIt might be the slowest elevator in North Dakota, but as you inch down below the North Dakota prairie, the destination is certainly worth the drawn-out ride.When the concertinaed gate retracts you are delivered into a...

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FOUR: Mt. Rushmore and the greatness of hope

Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksStanding on the observation patio and staring out at Mt. Rushmore solicits an array of emotions. My grandfather’s family first came to North America in 1607. My...

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Who needs Vesper, when you have Moores?

Bond: I already have a dinner jacket.Vesper: There are dinner jackets and then there are dinner jackets; this is the latter. And I need you to look like a man who belongs at that table.Bond: How... it's tailored?Vesper: I sized you up the moment we met... We’re...

Diefenbunker Casino Night Fundraiser

TWO: Wendover Airfield – Home of the Enola Gay

Written by Guest Blogger: Brett Leigh DicksEstablished in 1940, the Wendover Army Air Field was a United States Army bombing and gunnery range located in northwest Utah.When the United States entered World War II in 1941 the airfield took on a much greater...

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