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Towards the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had an over-the-horizon radar system that was so powerful, it interfered with the world's electronics, and some people believed it to be a Soviet mind control experiment.

During the cold war, America sent Romania 20,000 Bibles, which the Romanians subsequently turned into toilet paper because they had a shortage.

During the Cold War, the secret city of Zheleznogorsk made plutonium for atom bombs. One reactor generated heat and electricity for the local populations and could not be turned off. So it continued to produce enough plutonium to make a new bomb every three days until it was shut down in 2010.

Fidel Castro and 500,000 Cubans took part in Cold War proxy and anti-Colonialism wars in Africa, leading to independence of Guinea, Mozambique, and Angola from Portuguese rule

St.Louis biological weapons testing


The US Army conducted tests for a biological weapons program during the Cold War on impoverished St. Louis neighborhoods. Results were giving cancer to its own citizens.

The closest the world came to full-scale nuclear war was not during Cuban Missile Crisis or even the during Cold War, but instead, it was when a scientific rocket was mistaken as an American ICBM in 1995.

Spy shoelaces


During the Cold War, CIA agents used a method of communication-based on how their shoelaces were tied.

George Orwell coined the term "cold war" to describe the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union.

NATO was never involved in any conflict until the Cold War was over. Now it's already conflict NUMBER 6

The Cold War is credited to have started in Canada after a Soviet Cipher Clerk defected to Canada and revealed Stalin's attempts to steal nuclear secrets.

In 1963, at the height of the Cold War, the US military launched a ring of 480million needles into orbit around the earth. It was hoped they would more reliably bounce radio signals back to earth in case the Soviets cut through undersea cables. Multiple clumps of these needles are still up there.

Because of Hiroshima/Nagasaki/Cold War Testing, the steel used for radioactive-sensitive purposes must be harvested from pre-WWII naval vessels: modern steel production is all tainted with radioactivity.

More than half the world's children who are not being educated are in Nigeria, the country's government has said.


Acknowledging the scale of the problem the education ministry's permanent secretary Adamu Hussaini said it was "sad to note" that Nigeria had 10.5 million children out of school.


This is the first time senior officials have admitted the size of the problem.
Cultural factors have been blamed but critics point to a lack of money going to publicly funded schools.

The UN's children's agency, Unicef, has been campaigning on this issue as well as a number of other groups.


On a visit to the country last week, education activist Malala Yousafzai met acting president Yemi Osinbajo and asked him to declare what she called "an education state of emergency in Nigeria".
Mr Hussaini said those most affected were girls, street children and the children of nomadic groups and added that economic prosperity can only be achieved with an "inclusive and functional education system".


But BBC Hausa editor Jimeh Saleh says the failure in the education system is due to a lack of government funding, rather than any cultural factors as suggested by the ministry.

"Government funded schools in Nigeria have practically collapsed over the years because of poor funding leaving children from poor homes with nowhere to go but the streets," he says.


Unicef estimates that 60% of Nigerian children not attending school live in the north of the country.

www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40715305

In God, We Trust was placed on all U.S. bills during the Cold War as a way to express the United States' anti-communist beliefs.

12-Foot Siren


Obviously early warning systems were a vital part of the Cold War strategy, on both sides. the huge red thing in this picture is in fact a 12-foot Chrysler Air Raid Siren, and it is so powerful, it can even turn fog into rain!

Instinctive Deer


Well, not exactly, but in a study carried out, scientists found that Deer in the Czech Republic refuse to cross into Germany. Almost just knowing not to instinctively. Although they found it was because of the electric fences which were previously there.

Closed Cites


Only in the Cold War era could this even happen, and only the Soviets could be the ones to do it! The Soviets ran a number of “closed cities” that were restricted for anyone and used only for military purposes.

Mobile Nukes


The Cold War was all about nuclear this and nuclear that, and the world could easily have ended in disaster. Take for example the mobile nukes the Americans had in planes around the world, in case of a Soviet strike. Five of their planes crashed and a couple led to nuclear contamination!

Soviet Computer Glitch


Did we say ‘computer glitch’? That’s the understatement of the century! When Soviet Colonel Stanislav Petrov received a message that Soviet technology was showing an all out nuclear attack by the Americans, he went with his gut and didn’t attack back. It’s just as well, as a nuclear holocaust was averted due to that gut feeling.

Flight 007


No we aren’t talking about James Bond here, although he would fit perfectly into such a scenario. We are in fact referring to the Korean Boeing 747 which was shot down by the USSR in 1983 for invading Soviet airspace.

Soccer Suspicion


The Americans became highly suspicious when they spotted some people playing soccer in a Cuban field. By their sometimes over paranoid logic, “Cubans play baseball while Soviets play soccer!”

Bear Tests


It may sound cruel to you, and it is, but the reality is that someone needed to test ejector seats in American jets. That task fell, excuse the pun, on the poor bears, some of which lived, most of which didn’t.

Russian Bug


When, in 1945, a group of Soviet children gave the then-US ambassador a seal for his office, it wasn’t until a full 7 years after he hung it, that he found out it was a listening device! It seems the Soviets were often one step ahead when it came to spying on their enemies.

Soviet Map Talent


Their philosophy on Communism may have proved in the fullness of time to be a disaster, but the Soviets were and always will be talented people. Like for example their map writers, who knew the Arctic so well, their maps are still used today.

Nuclear Moon


In an attempt to show supremacy and military strength, the United States administration hatched a plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. They never went through with the crazy plan, which was nothing more than playing with big toys to impress their enemies.

3rd World


Unbeknown to many, the term “3rd world” country didn’t always refer to poorer countries around the world. As this map shows, years ago, it actually referred to countries who were not allied with either the USSR or America!

1st and 2nd World


So if those not aligned at all with the two superpowers were called “3rd World” who was considered 1st and 2nd World? Interestingly, countries aligned with the US were called “1st World” while those affiliated with the USSR were called “2nd World.”

Nukes Poised


This one is hysterical, in a twisted sort of way. For some strange reason, Russian officials thought that the building in the middle of the Pentagon was a secret meeting room for top-level American staff. As such they had their nukes pointed straight at it, even though it was nothing more than a hot dog stand!

Red Square Landing


An interesting but little-known Cold War fact involves a chap called Mathias Rust and his small aircraft. It was the middle of the Cold War when 18-year-old Rust flew through Russian defenses and landed in the center of Red Square in a bid to ease tensions between the USSR and the West.

Here are some interesting facts about the Cold War that are almost too shocking to believe…

This deep-felt conflict went on for many long years, predicated on the conflicting ideologies of Capitalism and Communism…
Those who defended Western ideals, headed up by the U.S.A., wanted to diminish U.S.S.R. influence and persuade developing countries of the supremacy of Capitalism and Democracy. The Russians, on the other hand, preached the evils of Western ways, and how everything ‘American’ was in fact evil and to be avoided.


Both the Russians and the Americans developed nuclear arsenals as they prepared for what seemed like inevitable conflict. The resulting war of nerves was felt by millions across the globe.

Both the Russians and the Americans developed nuclear arsenals as they prepared for what seemed like inevitable conflict. The resulting war of nerves was felt by millions across the globe.

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