Cold War Victims

Babies born near to the date of the first atomic test at trinity on july 16 1945 and survived are lucky to be alive.

Cold war victims. Oct 28th 1999 2 min read. More than 200 airmen were shot down while spying on the soviet union. 6 traitorous cold war spies from a british member of parliament to a cia counterintelligence officer meet some of the cold war personalities who betrayed their countries. Feulner is the founder and former president of the heritage foundation.

These wars have left thousands of victims all over the world. It would rank as the 9th deadliest war in history. A loose definition of casualties linked to the cold war the gives a death toll between about 10 8 and 25 million by estimating related civil wars interventions and genocides. Cold war heroes victims.

Background on the rough cold war casualty count. 15 ending world war ii and its nearly half century of aggression in asia. But the decades since have seen the weapons stockpiling of the cold war and a nuclear standoff. Babies in new mexico.

The victims were all opponents of the yugoslav government established by josip broz tito. The pby4 privateer and other aircraft used for ferret flights carried crews on espionage missions. Anti personnel mines apm laid during the cold war have been taking their toll in human lives and crippling scores of human beings each year in afghanistan angola cambodia mozambique somalia ethiopia eritrea laos and vietnam. Dragisa and ivanka were among dozens of yugoslavian emigres murdered during the cold war from america to australia to france.

Secret casualties of the cold war gary powers wasn t the only one.