1950s

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Dates	Events
Circa 1950	Pacifica Ocean (Paz Ortega Andrade) is born.
November 12, Early '50s	Peter Stillman is born.
Early '50s	The Boss's horse is born.

1950

Dates	Events
June 1950 - July 1953	The Korean War. Jack becomes The Boss's disciple.
	Jack fights in the war.
	U.S. President Truman orders production of a slew of nuclear warheads.
	The French movie Les Enfants Terribles is released.

1951

Dates	Events
March	MOSSAD is reorganized as the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations in Israel.
November 1	The "Buster Dog" atomic test is conducted at Area 7 in Nevada, with U.S. Army troops participating. The Boss is exposed to high levels of radiation.

1952

Dates	Events
	Wernher von Braun proposes the Mars Project, his plan to send men into space.
June 19	The U.S. Army Special Forces "Green Berets" is first organized.
October 3	The United Kingdom tests its first nuclear bomb, becoming the world's third nuclear power.
November 4	The National Security Agency (NSA) is established.
	English mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing is arrested for practicing homosexuality, an illegal act under UK laws at the time.
	The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is founded in Livermore, California by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), for the purpose of research and development of nuclear weapons.

1953

Dates	Events
March 5	Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin dies from a supposed cerebral hemorrhage behind closed doors, although Ocelot would later suspect that Stalin had been poisoned by Skull Face.
April	Watson and Crick discover the double helix structure of DNA.
May 25	The movie It Came from Outer Space is released.
June 16 - 17	The Uprising in East Germany. Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin takes part in the suppression.
June 27	End of the Korean War.
September 7	Nikita Khrushchev becomes the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
November 9	The Laotian Civil War begins. The United States Marine Corps sniper duo Glaz and Palitz participate in the war.
December	First issue of Playboy magazine is published.

1954

Dates	Events
January 12	Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces the New Look policy (the so-called "massive retaliation strategy").
January 21	The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, is launched.
March 1	The first U.S. test of a hydrogen bomb, Operation Castle Bravo, is detonated in Bikini Atoll. Jack is rendered sterile after involvement in the testing.
March 13	The KGB (Committee for State Security) is formed in the Soviet Union.
March 13 - May 7	The Battle of Dien Bien Phu. The French garrison of Dien Bien Phu falls, signaling the victory of the Viet Nimh. France pulls out of Indochina.
June 1	The start of CIA involvement in Vietnam.
July	The Japan Self-Defense Forces are formed.
November 1	The Algerian War of Independence begins.
September 17	William Golding's novel The Lord of the Flies is released.
	The Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee, the first flying platform prototype, is created by the United States.
	The MAZ-535 Soviet army truck is developed in the Soviet Union.
	Isaac Asimov's novel The Caves of Steel is released.
	The Japanese movie Godzilla is released.

Warning: The following information is from outside Hideo Kojima's core "Metal Gear Saga." Its canonicity within the continuity is disputed, therefore reader discretion is advised.[?]

Dates	Events
	Wilhelm Voigt is born.

Non-"Metal Gear Saga" information ends here.

1955

Dates	Events
February 26	The USS Missouri is decommissioned and placed into the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
April 18	Albert Einstein dies, begging for the end of nuclear weapons.
May 11	The movie Bride of the Monster is released.
August 3	The First World Conference against atomic/hydrogen bombs in Hiroshima.
December 24	NORAD first sets up the NORAD Tracks Santa program.
	First successful liftoff of a Flying Platform in America.
	The race to conquer space begins.

1956

Dates	Events
February 5	The movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers is released.
October 23 — November 10	The Hungarian Revolution. Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin takes part in the suppression.

1957

Dates	Events
July 29	The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is established to oversee peaceful as well as military applications of atomic power.
August	The USSR successfully launches the first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7.
September 29	The Kyshtym Nuclear Disaster in the Ural Mountains. Elisa is caught in the nuclear fallout and is taken to a lab in East Germany, in which she is subjected to ESP experiments. There, she develops her alternate personality, Ursula.
October 4	The USSR launches Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite, resulting in the "Sputnik Shock."
December 14	The movie The Bridge on the River Kwai is released.
December 17	The U.S. launches its first successful ICBM, the Atlas A.
	The first ever HALO school in the United States military is established. The Boss is invited to teach at the school.
	SS-1C enters service.
	The Zu-23 is first produced.

Warning: The following information is from outside Hideo Kojima's core "Metal Gear Saga." Its canonicity within the continuity is disputed, therefore reader discretion is advised.[?]

Dates	Events
	Elisa is caught in the nuclear fallout of the Kyshtym Nuclear Disaster in the Ural Mountains and is taken to a lab in East Germany, in which she is subjected to ESP experiments. There, she develops her alternate personality, Ursula.

Non-"Metal Gear Saga" information ends here.

1958

Dates	Events
February 1	America launches its first satellite, the Explorer 1.
February 7	The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created. Its creation is directly attributed to the launching of Sputnik and to U.S. realization that the Soviet Union had developed the capacity to rapidly exploit military technology.
July 29	NACA is dissolved. NASA is established. Work doesn't begin until October 1.
August 29	The movie The Fly is released.
October 1	NASA begins operation.
	The USSR launches the Vostok Program, the first human spaceflight program.
	Mountain Dew is developed.
	The Da Nang Air Base is established.

1959

Dates	Events
January 1	The Cuban Revolution: The 26th of July Movement overthrows Batista's government.
	The United States launches Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program of the United States.
June 12	The Boss abandons Jack on a mission without explanation. She is called in to be part of a secret mission by the President to sabotage various Soviet projects, as well as participate in the Mercury Lady project by NASA.
July	The movie The Alligator People is released.
July 28	The movie North by Northwest is released.
October	The University of Minnesota professor Mordecai Roshwald publishes the novel Level 7.
October 6	The Luna 3 takes pictures of the dark side of the moon.
December	American movie On the Beach released.
	The United States uses the Da Nang Air Base as one of their major air bases.
	The Tiger Stripe Camo is adopted by the South Vietnamese Marine Corps.
	The Object 279 tank is commissioned for the Red Army, but cancelled by Krushchev due to both favoring long-range missiles and budget constraints. Colonel Volgin of GRU later procures the designs and mass-produces the tanks at Tselinoyarsk.
	The Soviet Union halts supply of aid to China in nuclear weapons development, resulting in hydrogen bomb and space rocket projects falling behind. This fuels the Chinese Philosophers' desire to recover the Philosophers' Legacy.