The Proud Cold Warrior™: We are back, finally!

Hello all,

After a long time of enduring a working life as I knew it, I finally retired and have the time to do what I wish. One of those wishes is that I restart this blog and the Proud Cold Warrior Society attached to it.

I started this blog to promote the fact that we Cold Warriors are proud of our service and share the history, personal stories, and opinions of those of us involved in the conflict. Yes, it was a conflict in many different forms. Both hot and cold. The hot periods came through the proxy wars we fought and the hidden clashes we had directly with the USSR. The cold periods were the longest spanning from 1945 to 1991. These were years of a standoff between the USA and USSR military and intelligence agencies where we tried to get the "upper hand" on the opposition.

In addition to this blog I will be conducting interviews with Cold War veterans, their personal stories will be shared here and then deposited with the Library of Congress for permanent recording.

I thought I'd start with a simple "This Day In History" article from the History.com website.

On this day in Cold War history - 1966 - H-Bomb Lost In Spain! Follow this link to learn more.

Headline of different crash but same affect on population I am sure!

Can you imagine the stress the world population went through with newspaper headlines like this each time a bomber crashed or jettisoned the payload?!

I first read of this story in a book many years ago about Dr. John P. Craven's exploits during the Cold War. His team was directly involved in the recovery of the H-bombs. If you are unaware of Dr. Craven's work, his book: The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea is an excellent read. He was involved in a multitude of Cold War lost submarine incidents, USSR ICBM recoveries, and clandestine undersea intelligence operations. It is available on Amazon.com at this web link: The Silent War - John P. Craven

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Citations:
1. Craven, John Pina (2010), The Silent War, Simon and Schuster, pp. 174-175, ISBN 978-0-684-87213-1.
2. The photos used in this post are from a Google search - no citations were attached. Thank you for the use of them and if you are the copyright holder, please connect and I will provide full citation.
3. Thank you to the History.com website for the This Day In History article.