![]() ![]() It was those fading yellow-and-black signs that led USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin to look back at the Cold War's quite-real effects on central and northern Wisconsin. In Marathon County, shelters still lie beneath churches and in the backyards of homes, and those who lived through the Cold War - especially folks who experienced the Cuban missile crisis - remember just how scary it was to go through every day with a gnawing fear of the Soviets. ![]() Today the empty Air Force base stands as a haunting reminder of the Cold War, those days of underground shelters and nuclear fallout drills when U.S.- Soviet tensions could break out into full-blown nuclear war. Although fallout signs still hang near the entrances to local buildings, they no longer carry the same meaning that they once did. The 676th Radar Squadron was decommissioned in 1977 and has sat abandoned ever since. ![]() Watch Video: Antigo's decommissioned Air Force base ![]()
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