Cold War Secrets of Northern Minnesota

Dr.Docs' Take

Not every Cold War story happened in Berlin, and this PBS film goes looking for the part that hummed quietly under northern Minnesota. It gathers local voices, Klosowski, Chapman, Hein, and visits the radar and missile sites that once sat beneath everyday towns. I find the small-scale angle more chilling than the summit-room version, because it shows the threat living in ordinary backyards. History is almost always more local than the textbooks let on.

In "Cold War Secrets of Northern Minnesota," you'll meet Cold War heroes like Ray Klosowski, Jim Chapman and Ronald Hein. You'll visit military sites in Duluth, French River and Finland. And you'll learn how the constant threat of nuclear annihilation affected everyone in northern Minnesota, America and the world. 2025 Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Nominated From the Stories of Service series of documentaries.

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