The Doomsday Clock, a symbol created during the early years of the Cold War, serves as a metaphorical representa...
26 January 2024
On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1. It was the world’s first artificial s...
23 June 2022
Originally written for VTST by Lieutenant Colonel A.W Garrad in 2012
In recognition of the Australian and NZ finan...
27 January 2022
With the dawning of the atomic age in August 1945, it was obvious to military strategists that any future bomber to d...
25 November 2021
William Penney, the man in charge of Britain’s bomb design, William Cook, his deputy, and the scientists at the Atomi...
29 October 2021
On 16 July 1945, with the support of Britain, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic weapon. In August ...
25 June 2021
On 3 October 1952, Britain detonated their first atomic bomb.
Due to the small size and high-density populat...
28 May 2021
On 19 October 1945, just over two months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, English writer&nbs...
30 October 2020
An espionage story from 1966 – by Jim Debenham, VTST Volunteer
If this were a fictional story it would h...
30 October 2020
Operation Sky Shield was a series of three large-scale military exercises conducted in the United States. The Cold Wa...
12 October 2020