Cold War - Trivia, Quizzes, and Brain Teasers | Mental Floss

How 10-Year-Old Samantha Smith Helped Ease Cold War Tensions In the Early 1980s

Samantha Smith (second from right) is greeted by Russian Young Pioneers at the airport in Moscow in 1983.

How 10-Year-Old Samantha Smith Helped Ease Cold War Tensions In the Early 1980s

Experience the Past With This Subscription Service That Delivers Replicas of Historical Documents Every Month

History by Mail

Experience the Past With This Subscription Service That Delivers Replicas of Historical Documents Every Month

Recently Declassified Soviet Video Shows the Biggest Nuclear Explosion in History

Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain

Recently Declassified Soviet Video Shows the Biggest Nuclear Explosion in History

13 Surprising Facts About George Orwell

Cassowary Colorizations, Flickr // CC BY 2.0

13 Surprising Facts About George Orwell

The Time the U.S. Government Planned to Nuke Alaska

iStock.com/mesut zengin

The Disturbing Reason Schools Tattooed Their Students in the 1950s

Kurt Hutton, Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Why 1 Million People Live in Cold War-Era Bunkers Under the Streets of Beijing

iStock.com/Wenjie Dong

In 1959, the U.S. Postal Service Attempted to Deliver Mail via Missile

Smithsonian National Postal Museum

When a 1986 Meeting Between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev Wreaked Havoc on Iceland

World History Archive, Alamy

5 Intriguing Details Found in the Newly Released JFK Assassination Papers

Keystone/Getty Images

Budapest’s Former Top-Secret Hospital Inside a Cave

The Hospital in the Rock

10 Cold War Artifacts From the Real-Life Bridge of Spies Auction

U-2 designer Kelly Johnson with Francis Gary Powers (left to right).

Why the Berlin Wall Rose and Fell

Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Sift Through Eight Decades of CIA Maps

President Nixon, 1970

How a Hot Dog Stand Found Itself In the Soviet Union's Crosshairs

13 Things You Might Not Know About the Berlin Wall

Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0 de