In the 1960s, Telegraph Poles Were Equipped With Nuclear Bomb Alarms
(via Atlas Obscura) The “Bomb Alarm System,” designed and implemented by Western Union, wasn’t a secret, but it was unobtrusive
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How a Solar Flare Almost Triggered a Nuclear War in 1967
(via Popular Mechanics) The year was 1967, the middle of the Cold War. America and Russia were locked in a
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