The Chrysler Air Raid Siren was a hulking beast that was 12-feet long, six-feet high, and weighed somewhere around 6,000 pounds. Inside the siren was a 1952 180-hp V8 Chrysler HEMI engine capable ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Air raid sirens warning of Russian attacks are a constant in Ukraine. Thousands of the alarms have presaged Russian air strikes over the past two years.

GREG MYRE, BYLINE: The air raid sirens warning of a Russian assault can go off any time or any place in Ukraine. One recently began to wail as a 28-year-old singer, Diana Oganesyan, was walking ...

Many of the old municipal air-raid sirens were powered by industrial Chrysler Hemi V8 engines. A modern 4-cylinder engine is probably reasonably comparable power, actually; ...

They were air raid sirens first installed during World War II, then revived and expanded during the Cold War of the 1950s and 60s. Most people who lived here then remember the sirens being tested on ...

I grew up in a small town just outside London, and every Tuesday morning a WW2 air raid siren would go off, waking me from my slumber/hangover. To this very day, I know not why.

New York City's history with the air raid siren dates back to WWII. The city's first siren was installed on February 19, 1942 at Gerritsen Avenue and Avenue U, in Brooklyn.

The air-raid siren took on more poignant meaning after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Homeland Security Department's color-coded warning system and recent news about North Korea's ...

Air raid sirens are “the very core and heart of why I became a historian,” said Justin Jampol, founder of Culver City’s Wende Museum of the Cold War. Now 44, ...

The Chrysler Air Raid Siren was a hulking beast that was 12-feet long, six-feet high, and weighed somewhere around 6,000 pounds.

When an air raid siren went off recently in Kyiv, a young singer spontaneously began harmonizing with the alarm. The result went viral on social media. Search Query Show Search. HOME.

Next, we have a story of the frequent air raid sirens in Ukraine. These sirens are a matter of life and death to Ukrainians. They also, by the way, can be disturbing when heard here in the United ...