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3: The Skrunda Hen House radar Operations Area photographed by KH-7 Mission 4031 on 20 August 1966. Extract from entity ID DZB00403100058H006001 available from the US Geological Survey, EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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... Since gambit photographs were acquired speci fi cally to gain high-resolution surveillance images of military and other installations in primarily the former Soviet Union and China, they are well suited to support Cold War archaeological studies, much as aerial photographs acquired some 50 years earlier are now being used to study aspects of the archaeology of the First World War (Stichelbaut 2006 and Chap. 5 , this volume). The utility of gambit photographs to studies of Cold War material culture has been demonstrated recently in a case study of the installations associated with the fi rst generation surface to air missile (SAM) system that was built in the late 1950s to protect Moscow from aerial attack (Fowler 2008 ) and the development of a ballistic missile early warning radar facility in Latvia (Fowler 2010 ) . A further example of this application is shown in Fig. 4.6 which comprises an extract from a gambit photograph that was acquired by Mission 4031 on 20 August 1966 of the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) launch site at Nigrande in Latvia. ...
The declassification at the end of the last century of over 900,000 photographs acquired by the corona, argon, lanyard, gambit and hexagon US photo reconnaissance satellite programmes between 1960 and 1980 has resulted in an archive of declassified intelligence satellite photographs (DISP) that is both global in scale and easily accessible. As a source of low-cost, relatively high-resolution satellite imagery, the DISP archive is being used extensively by archaeologists to investigate landscapes in the arid regions of Asia Minor and the Middle East, as well as in more temperate regions. In this chapter, the nature and archaeological uses of the various DISP products are described, and representative examples are provided in order to permit the reader to appreciate their archaeological potential.
While sites associated with the cultural heritage of armed conflict are self-evident in the landscape, sites associated with arms limitation treaties are usually conspicuously absent. The Washington Arms Limitation Treaty 1922 was arguably one the most significant treaties of the first half of the twentieth century. It can be shown that some heritage items associated with this treaty are still extant. Just as the Treaty required multinational goodwill and cooperation, the preservation of some of that heritage will also require multinational collaboration.
