Fun

The Cuban Missile Crisis on one scrubbable situation board. Drag through October 1962 hour by hour: missile sites appear on the map as the U-2s find them, the quarantine line goes up, Soviet ships stop dead in the water, and SAC goes to DEFCON 2 for the only time in history. Twenty-nine entries from the declassified record, including the Saturday everything nearly went wrong at once.

Times from the EXCOMM tapes and FRUS chronologies.

A 1961 civil defense pamphlet you can operate. Click where you'd stand when the fallout comes down and watch the dose change, stock a two-week shelter for your family from the real supply list, and drag the decay clock to learn the 7:10 rule the government taught sixty million households. Every number from the actual OCDM booklets.

Yellow, black, and matter-of-fact — the aesthetic designed itself in 1959.

Sit at a working SAGE air defense console, 1961. Unknown tracks cross the Atlantic picture; you hold the light gun. Hook each blip, check it against the flight plan board and its IFF squawk, then decide: mark it friendly, scramble a real F-106 for a visual ID, or fire a BOMARC and live with the call. Airliners and bombers share the same scope.

Part three of the Cold War air defense collection — SAGE found the targets Nike shot down.

Missile Command, 1959 edition. Bombers, ICBMs, and MIRVs rain down on six American cities while you burst Nike interceptors under them from an amber radar scope. Every dollar you earn banks between runs — spend it in the armory on Hercules missiles, more batteries, better radar, and eventually the nuclear option.

Companion game to the Nike Missile Explorer below.

A 1944 War Department dossier on the real Easy Company, 506th PIR — the men Ambrose's Band of Brothers and their own memoirs made famous. Ten reels: run Currahee against the clock, ride a C-47 into the Normandy night, silence the Brécourt guns step by step, hold the Bois Jacques in the snow, work the 85-points arithmetic, and read the men's own books on the shelf. Every fact sourced; earn stamps on your service record as you go.

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A blow-apart explorer for the Nike Ajax and Hercules — the Cold War missiles that once ringed American cities. One button explodes the missile into labeled cross-sections, Stephen Biesty style, and every part tells its story. A museum exhibit you can click through — the National Park Service still tours a restored Nike site in the Marin Headlands; this is the version you can visit from your couch.

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