To december 26th, 1991 with the collapse of the soviet union. It was a geopolitical standoff. Each one could have destroyed the world through a nuclear war but the cold war do d that. There will be no winners, so this cold war was a state of heightened tension that did not have direct conflict between the soviets and the americans. Vietnam, korea, gulf war, afghan war. Vint hill farms station was functional between World War Two and the 90s. After the cold war, the American Government realized there was no need for this facility because there was no more soviet union. The cold war ended. That as well as, there was an act called base realignment and closure act. In the mid 90s, a lot of military bases were shut down for cost savings, financial reasons, and we didnt need as much facilities to monitor the sol soviet union. It vacant for about ten years. We found it was available. They said yes we would love to talk to you about locating here. Of negotiations we opened up in 2011 at this f
Houses a Museum Dedicated to remembering the cold war. This is just under one hour. Gary welcome. My name is Francis Gary Powers jr. , i go by gary. I am the founder of the Cold War Museum at vint hill, virginia, about 45 miles west of washington, d. C. I founded the Cold War Museum in 1996 to honor cold war veterans, preserve cold war history and educate future generations about the time period. What i realized when i was giving lectures to Highschool Students in the area, 19 times out of 10, the students wouldnt know anything about the cold war or the u2 incident. They would think the u2 incidents have to do with the rock band. As a result, i noticed that they needed to be taught about the cold war. In 1996, we founded the Cold War Museum, which opened in 2011 here at a former Army Communication base near the washington, d. C. Area. It used to be used by the nsa, cia, Army Security agency and other groups to monitor the Electronic Communications around the washington, d. C. Embassy r
Reconstruction eras. American history tv this weekend every weekend on cspan three. Each week, american artifact visits museums, archives, and historic places. Up next, we travel about 45 miles west of the Nations Capital to tour a u. S. Army can indications base in warrenton, virginia, which now houses a Museum Dedicated to remembering the cold war. Is is just under an hour. Welcome, my name is francie Francis Gary Powers junior, i go by gary, i am the founder of the Cold War Museum at vince hill virginia, about 45 miles northwest of washington dc. I founded the Cold War Museum in 1996, to honor cold war veterans, preserve cold war history, and educate future generations about this time period. What i realized when i was giving lectures to High School Students in this area, nine times out of 10, the students would not know anything about the cold war or the u2 incident. They would think the u2 incident would have something to do do with the rock band. A the cold war period. In 1996 we
60, 70, 80, 90 percent. He said consumers will need to be good negotiators themselves to figure out how to pay for their Health Insurance. Back in 2009, 2010, as president obama was pursuing health care reform, republicans latched onto the unpopularity of the issue and rode a wave into congress and took control of the congress in the house of representatives. And that was a very, very big moment for republicans. So i think the trump campaign, sensing what has happened before perhaps could happen again, are latching onto this today. As you know, earlier today trump was at his golf resort in doral, florida, and talking about how obamacare affected his employees. One wrinkle in all that, though. Trump later said none of his employees at doral use obamacare to get Health Insurance. They get the Health Insurance at the hotel from donald trump themselves. So a slight at least for a certain bit of time, misunderstanding of how obamacare works and whether or not his employees even use the prog
Was false until about 38 minutes after the false alarm. That of course prolonging the emotion and the panic. Hawaiian Officials Say human error caused this false alarm. A worker during a shift change actually pushed the wrong button. The white house saying that this was a statecontrolled exercise, meaning it wasnt run by the federal authorities. Hawaiian congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has confirmed on twitter that a missile was not heading to hawaii and honolulus mayor also tweeting quote the Ballistic Missile warning that was issued is a false alarm. Repeat false alarm but that did little to try and calm the nerves. Bryan llenas following the story in our new york bureau. Nightmare scenario, 38 minutes of agonizing just tension on that island in hawaii. This all started at 8 07 this morning hawaiian time. The alert came out and as we saw with that message, it said Ballistic Missile threat in bound. That is on its way to hawaii, seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill. This activated