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Opening July 4th

The Cold War dominated every facet of postwar 20th century Western life. Bomb shelters, air raid drills and draft cards were as American as Apple Pie. Spies infiltrated the highest levels of government, while the Soviet Union stockpiled nuclear missiles and funded Marxist regimes around the world.

From Khrushchev and the KGB to Vietnam and the A-Bomb; from the Space Race to SDI, Cuban Missiles and the CIA, Detente to DEFCON1, Brezhnev to Bush, relive 50 years on the brink of nuclear war at the Nixon Library.