Nixon Library: The Cold War Experience

Nixon Library in Yorba Linda announces The Cold War, a new interactive exhibition.  Bomb shelters, air raid drills and draft cards were as American as Apple Pie.  Spies infiltrated the highest levels of government, while the Soviet Union stockpiled nuclear missiles and funded Marxist regimes around the world.

This interactive exhibit experience takes visitors behind the Iron Curtain to:

• Enter service as a TOP SECRET AGENT by attending a briefing in the White House Cabinet Room at the onset of the nuclear arms race
• Walk into post-war East Berlin by passing through the Checkpoint Charlie guard station
• Feel the apprehension of the nuclear era as you climb into a fallout shelter, stocked full of food and supplies for a nuclear winter
• Operate a ballistic missile submarine and simulate a nuclear launch
• Test your spycraft skills by using cameras to view reconnaissance satellite photos of Soviet weapons systems in Cuba
• Witness the Berlin Wall come crashing down