Cold War: Defending the Homeland

1. Cold War: Defending the Homeland

2. The Threat 1950’s on: Manned Bombers 1960’s on: Ballistic Missiles • Land-based ICBM’s initially • SLBM’s* added later * Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile

3. Soviet Bombers Soviet Special Weapon (?) Tu-4 Bull Copy of US B-29 Chinese-operated Tu-4 with turboprop engines and Chinese copy of US AQM-34 Firebee UAV

4. Soviet Bombers Tu-95 Bear Max Weight: 400,000 lbs Radius: 7,600 nm FAS

5. Soviet Bombers M-4 Bison Max Weight: 365,000 lbs. Radius: 2,500 nm

6. Defense Options Effective, secure nuclear forces Deter the Threat: Defeat the Threat: Active Defenses (aircraft, missiles) Mitigate the Threat: Passive Defenses (civil defense, dispersal, continuity of government)

7. Active Defense Surface-to-Air Missiles Bomarc Area Defense Warhead: 2 KT Nike Hercules Point Defense Warhead: 2 - 40 KT

8. Active Defense 288 site in 30 states San Francisco SAM sites Each missile had a nuclear warhead  Variable yield: 2 – 40 KT

9. Active Defense Nike Hercules SAM site

10. Active Defense Manned Interceptors F-106 Delta Dart F-101B Voodoo Genie rocket (1.7 KT warhead)

11. Civil Defense Living With the Bomb

12. Civil Defense Information Survival Under Atomic Attack (1950) (9:00)

13. Civil Defense January 12, 1962

14. Civil Defense

15. Civil Defense

16. Civil Defense

17. Civil Defense Community shelter supplies

18. Civil Defense

19. Civil Defense

20. Civil Defense “Duck and cover!”

21. Civil Defense Updated Video (9:16)

22. Civil Defense

23. Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis

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