Fri 10 September
Royal Air Force Museum Cosford
Cosford
Shifnal TF11 8UP
The use of the atomic bomb on Japan to end the Second World War demonstrated that mankind had the ability to obliterate itself completely. Winston Churchill noted as the war drew to a close, that 'an iron curtain was descending across Europe'.
After more than 5 years conflict in Europe, the Middle and Far East, during what was termed a "hot war", there followed over 40 years in which East and West stood either side of an ideological divide, separated by the awesome prospect of nuclear holocaust.
This was "The Cold War".
In the initial years of the Cold War, the Royal Air Force held the U.K's nuclear deterrent through its 'V Force' and from 1969 that deterrent was carried by the Royal Navy's submarines.
The Story of the Cold War is therefore much larger than one of aviation in isolation; this exhibition and its special website uses the part played by the Royal Air Force to illuminate and describe that period of world history in which our country was no more than 4 minutes away from annihilation.
22/10/2009 00:00:00 :
22/10/2014 00:00:00 :
National Cold War Exhibition at
ShifnalThe use of the atomic bomb on Japan to end the Second World War demonstrated that mankind had the ability to obliterate itself completely. Winston Churchill noted as the war drew to a close, that 'an iron curtain was descending across Europe'.
After more than 5 years conflict in Europe, the Middle and Far East, during what was termed a "hot war", there followed over 40 years in which East and West stood either side of an ideological divide, separated by the awesome prospect of nuclear holocaust.
This was "The Cold War".
In the initial years of the Cold War, the Royal Air Force held the U.K's nuclear deterrent through its 'V Force' and from 1969 that deterrent was carried by the Royal Navy's submarines.
The Story of the Cold War is therefore much larger than one of aviation in isolation; this exhibition and its special website uses the part played by the Royal Air Force to illuminate and describe that period of world history in which our country was no more than 4 minutes away from annihilation.