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2,342 Cold War Nuclear Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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retro underground control room with men in front of the console - cold war nuclear stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Retro underground control room with men in front of the console

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3D Radiation Sign

Control room at nuclear missile base, outside of Moscow.

Nuclear Missile Base Control Room

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Weapons of mass destruction. Missile system with nuclear warheads

Students at a Brooklyn middle school have a 'duck and cover' practice drill in preparation for a nuclear attack; silver print, 1962. From the New...

Duck And Cover Class Drill

1950s ATOM BOMB MUSHROOM CLOUD EXPLOSION

1950s ATOM BOMB MUSHROOM...

Black-and-white photo shows a man standing next to a surface bomb shelter that is advertising Victor J. Nelson's sales and distribution business,...

Cross-section illustration depicting a family in their underground lead fallout shelter, equipped with a geiger counter, periscope, air filter, etc.,...

Illustration Of Family Fallout Shelter

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1940s 1950s ATOMIC BOMB BLAST MUSHROOM CLOUD

1940s 1950s ATOMIC BOMB...

Protesters stage a sit-in during a demonstration against the Cuban missile crisis October 24, 1962 in London, United Kingdom. Former Russian and U.S....

FILE PHOTO 40th Anniversary Of Cuban Missile Crisis

Polaris A3 intercontinental ballistic missile launched from the submarine HMS Revenge in the Eastern Test Range off Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...

A Polaris A3 Missile Test Launch

The first soviet atomic bomb test, first lightning , ussr, august 29, 1949.

The first soviet atomic bomb test, first lightning (?????? ??????), ussr, august 29, 1949.

old mask for bacteriological warfare used during the cold war era. - cold war nuclear stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Old mask for bacteriological warfare used during the cold war era.

An informational brochure by the New York State Civil Defense Commission titled, You and the Atomic Bomb: What To Do In Case of An Attack" shows a...

You And The Atomic Bomb

Cutaway display of a concrete masonry basement fallout shelter with an exercise bike, television and library, 1950s.

Basement Bomb Fallout Shelter Display

Neptune U.S. Patrol plane flies over a Soviet freighter during the Cuban missile crisis in this 1962 photograph. Former Russian and U.S. Officials...

FILE PHOTO 40th Anniversary Of Cuban Missile Crisis

Participants in a rally of thousands of people to protest against nuclear weapons. East Germany DDR, 1983.

Participants in a rally of thousands of people to protest against nuclear weapons. East Germany DDR, 1983

John Hughes, Special Assistant to the Director of Defense Intelligence, conducts a military briefing for the news media showing the absence of Soviet...

FILE PHOTO 40th Anniversary Of Cuban Missile Crisis

The nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution leaving Gareloch, Scotland, 1977.

Nuclear Submarine HMS Resolution

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Secret underground facility

The 'Licorne' French nuclear test explosion at Fangataufa Atoll in French Polynesia, 3rd July 1970.

Licorne French Nuclear Test

It Can Happen Here, Join Civil Defense Poster

It Can Happen Here, Join Civil Defense Poster

Selection of US newspaper headlines on President Truman's announcement that Soviet Union had conducted its first nuclear weapon test, 24th September...

Fall-Out From Joe 1

Illustration depicting a family in their back yard underground bomb shelter, early 1960s.

Illustration Of Underground Bomb Shelter

Bronxville, NY: John C. Legler is a man who likes to be prepared. Beneath his Bronxville home he has constructed a steel and concrete shelter stocked...

Youth Check Supplies in Fallout Shelter

An informational booklet in the form of a comic book shows a man trapped inside an atomic symbol as another man watches jovially, circa 1948.

Adventures Inside The Atom

Circa 1975

A Victor class Russian nuclear submarine seen here on exercise in the North Atlantic.

Book called The Atom Bomb shows an illustration of an explosion with people running away and a woman screaming, circa 1945.

The Hydrogen Bomb, pic: 1952, A picture of the thermo-nuclear device tested by the U,S, at the Elugelab test island in the Marshall Islands , The...

The Hydrogen Bomb. pic: 1952. A picture of the thermo-nuclear device tested by the U.S. at the Elugelab test island in the Marshall Islands . The picture is taken from 50 miles distant and at 12,000 feet shows the early stage of the cloud formation which

Photographic postcard shows an atomic cloud dissipating over an atomic detonation area, circa 1952.

Nevada - Frenchman's Flat - members of 11th AB Div. Kneel on ground as they watch mushroom cloud of atomic bomb test 1951.

Nevada - atomic bomb test.

1950s CIVIL DEFENSE FALLOUT SHELTER SAMPLE OPEN FOR INSPECTION

1950s CIVIL DEFENSE...

An informational brochure titled "Survival in Atomic Bombing" shows a black-and-white photo of a mushroom cloud explosion on the water of a sandy...

Survival In Atomic Bombing

Soviet Russian propaganda poster delivering a warning to the USA not to meddle with atomic weapons. The beginning of the Cold War is represented in...

A warning to the USA.

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Nuclear weapon on the background of the North Korean flag

Complex, Greenham Common, West Berkshire, 2016. The site of the Ground Launched Cruise Missile Alert and Maintenance Area at Greenham Common....

Cold War museum. Nuclear rocket missile warhead model figure at garden.

Cold War museum. Nuclear rocket missile warhead model figure...

The Avro Blue Steel, a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear stand-off missile, built to arm the V bomber force. 1963

The Avro Blue Steel, a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear stand-off missile, built to arm the V bomber force

“The USA out of Latin America!”, “Down with the new American missiles from Europe!” - under such slogans a mass demonstration of protest took place...

mass demonstration of protest took place in West Berlin. 1983

An informational brochure for civil defense shows an illustration of a family walking hand-in-hand beneath a giant helmet, circa 1952.

Alert Today - Alive Tomorrow

German gunner checks a Pershing missile before the launching on South Uist. 2nd September 1965.

Pershing missile

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signs the order of a naval blockade of Cuba, on October 23, 1962 in White House, Washington DC, during the Cuban...

CUBA-USA-USSR-MISSILE CRISIS

Destroyer stops a soviet cargo coming from Cubain order to check the freight, on November 12 during the Cuban missiles crisis. - The Cuban missile...

CUBA-USA-USSR-MISSILE CRISIS

Poster Urbaniec World Peace Council Poland, anti-war, disarmament campaign in Poland 1982 during the Cold war.

Poster Urbaniec World Peace Council Poland, anti-war, disarmament campaign in Poland

Instructor Lt. Richard C. Reynolds programmes a malfunction into the launch control trainer used in the Titan missile supervisors' and planners'...

1960s NOVEMBER 5 1962 PHOTO REVEALS MISSILE EQUIPMENT NOW LOADED ON FREIGHTERS PREVIOUSLY ON DOCKSIDE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

1960s NOVEMBER 5 1962...

The rocket will be used shortly by the Americans to send another Discoverer satellite into orbit. The Thor being loaded into a Liftmaster transport...

This 55-ton Thor H-Bomb rocket was flown back to the United States from the Bomber Command rocket base at Hemswell, Linc

Housewife model smiles while posing with a display of bomb shelter supplies during the Cold War, 1950s.

Housewife Posing With Bomb Shelter Supplies

British Royal Navy Polaris A3 nuclear missile test after being fired from the nuclear powered submarine HMS Resolution off Cape Kennedy, Florida,...

A Royal Navy Polaris Nuclear Missile Test

American nuclear physicist and father of the atom bomb Robert Oppenheimer sits at a table with reporters at a press conference in the University of...

Oppenheimer Press Conference

Nuclear Blue Steel SOM being lowered from a transporter on to a trolley prior to be loaded on an awaiting Handley Page Victor strategic bomber,...

A Handley Page Victor Bomber Armed With Nuclear Missile

Strategic ballistic missile 1980.

Strategic ballistic missile

An informational pamphlet shows a photograph of a mushroom cloud explosion with the title, "Six Steps to Survival," circa 1957.

Six Steps to Survival

Retired Cuban Colonel Oscar Larralde, who remembers hearing the explosions that downed an American spy plane over Cuba in 1962 during the Cuban...

CUBA-US-USSR-MISSILE CRISIS-60TH ANNIVERSARY

Picture taken on March 28, 2022 shows beds ready to use are photographed inside a dormitary of a public concrete nuclear fallout shelter located in...

SWITZERLAND-CONFLICT-SECURITY-NUCLEAR

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An informational pamphlet titled "You Can Survive The Atomic Bomb - What To Do In An Attack" shows a black and white photo of a giant mushroom cloud,...

Build A Family Fallout Shelter Now

united states navy poseidon c-3 and polaris a-3 ballistic missiles - cold war nuclear stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

United States Navy Poseidon C-3 and Polaris A-3 Ballistic Missiles

An illustration shows a man with a headset operating machinery while a mushroom cloud explosion is seen in the distance, circa 1953.

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