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Happy Mothers Day from the Cold War...



Happy Cold War-era Mother’s Day from AC Spark Plug (1958)!

This is the Mrs. Behind the Missile… It takes a special kind of woman to be the wife of one of today’s missile men. … They know more about the problems of raising a family virtually alone than they do about the business of producing the missiles themselves. This advertisement is a tribute to the courage of such women, and to the very real contribution they are making to the development of a guided missile arsenal for this nation’s defense. … If you are such a woman, and your husband has engineering or scientific training which could make a contribution to this program, and is not a member of the armed forces, ask him to write — or write yourself — to the personnel section of AC in Milwaukee.
Advertising for weapons designers

On May 14, 1607, English colonists establish "James Fort" aka Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America, was founded.



And so it began...May 14, 1913: Governor of New York, William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller. $3,064,272,727 today.


The Rockefeller Foundation and the American Experiment


The Huntsville Times, May 14, 1950:




May 14, 1955, ~400-500 miles SW of San Diego, CA, the United States conducted Operation Wigwam, its second underwater nuclear test, to assess submarine vulnerability to deep water (-2000') nuclear explosions. Yield of the B7 “Betty” depth bomb was 30 kt. The B7 or Mark-7 warhead was designed at Los Alamos and was the first US tactical nuclear warhead, used in five separate weapon systems. 225 Mark 90 "Betty" nuclear depth bombs with a variable yield of 8-61 kilotons were manufactured and deployed from 1955-60.




55 years ago today, Lt. Gen. Berton Spivy outlined FREEDOM DROP, a contingency plan to attack North Korea with multiple nuclear weapons during the crisis sparked by its seizure of the Navy/NSA spy ship USS Pueblo on January 23, 1968, a plan that President Lyndon Johnson rejected.



One of the great contingency plan names ever. Lt. Gen. Spivy’s full memorandum is available here.

May 14, 1973: Skylab, the United States first space station, is launched. 50 years later and Skynet is fully operational.


"Conan the Barbarian" opened in U.S. theaters on May 14, 1982.




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WaPo archived


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