Cold Warrior

 Freeze is the title of this 1978 painting by Ted Zuber, depicting Canadian soldiers on a patrol in no man's land lit up by an enemy flare.

The War Museum has a number of paintings by Zuber, who was a young art student when he enlisted. Years later he would paint from his sketches his memories of the Korean War. And decades later, he would return to war as a commissioned war artist during Desert Storm.

His painting of the battle of Kap'yong hangs here.

It was a ferocious battle of that war, with Canadians among those engaged in a hostile mountain battleground.

Armistice came, but not real peace, and the Cold War would carry on elsewhere.

One of the most vivid artifacts in the Museum is a recreation of a military command centre one can sit in. Onscreen displays show the unfolding of a third world war, starting with this introduction.

The Cold War as a period in history was one of the most tense times to be in.

Weapons of the Warsaw Pact. Among the few things they made well was the Kalishnikov, 

This is a Centurion tank, a mainstay of western allied forces.

The idea of going nuclear is examined here, and what is said would be enough for those war planners on all sides to have second thoughts about it.