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  • A man in a suit stands near a large model of the Sputnik satellite, displayed in a window with cars and posters visible on the street outside.

    From Berlin to Cuba: 24 Incredible Photos That Capture the Tension of the Cold War

    From the launch of Sputnik to the Cuban Missile Crisis, here are 24 Cold War photos that capture the intensity of the era.

    Spanning from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the Cold War wasn’t a traditional war that was fought on battlefields. As a high-stakes race between the U.S., the Soviet Union, and their allies, the Cold War was waged through…