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RAF museum's exhibits come in from the cold war

It was a time of icy diplomacy, frozen friendships and mutually assured destruction - and its history is now about to be told in the first exhibition of its kind. The extraordinary story of the cold war, from missiles to buried nuclear warheads kept warm by cooped chickens, opens next month in Shropshire, housed in two soaring glass and aluminum fins divided by a rusting iron curtain.

The £12.3m project at the Royal Air Force museum in Cosford, near Wolverhampton, is the world's first display on 45 years of hostile stalemate, when Britain lived with the threat of armageddon after a four-minute warning.

"It is a remarkable reminder of how pervading the sense of threat and a hostile power became," said Michael Fopp, director of the RAF museum. "We've got exhibits showing how the cold war affected sports, home life, even children's board games, on both sides. But we're telling it almost by accident."
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