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A-10 Pilot's Coloring Book

The A-10 training guide from the 1970s was a hilarious coloring book

By Blake Stilwell

heart attack gun

The CIA secretly created an undetectable ‘heart attack gun’

By Blake Stilwell

Detachment A berlin

A secret Cold War unit was the basis for today’s special operations

By Blake Stilwell

The CIA declassified these 11 Russian jokes about the Soviet Union

By Blake Stilwell

SR-71 blackbird revealed getty

Why the SR-71 Blackbird is the only aircraft with the SR designation

By Blake Stilwell

presidents see combat

8 Presidents who actually saw combat in a big way

By Blake Stilwell

broken arrow mark 4 fat man nuclear bomb

How the US Air Force handled its first-ever ‘Broken Arrow’

By Friedrich Seiltgen

Three NASA armored personnel carriers sit parked outside of a facility.

Why Cold War NASA had 4 armored personnel carriers

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The United States’ Cold War-Era rules for encountering a Yeti

By Blake Stilwell

Soviet Union captures Romania

Today in military history: Soviet Union captures Romania

That time American and Russian tanks faced off in a divided Berlin

Why Soviet troops boiled their bullets

By Miguel Ortiz

a member of the Mujahideen carries a weapon on his soldier

Operation Cyclone: The CIA’s covert program to arm the mujahideen

By Jessica Evans

a photo of the Berlin wall

‘Operation Gold:’ How an underground tunnel provided a treasure trove of Soviet secrets

By Jessica Evans

That time we almost launched the atomic bomb on North Korea

That time we almost launched the atomic bomb on North Korea

By Jessica Manfre

Viktor Belenko's military passport

One of the world’s most famous Soviet defectors has passed

That time the CIA tried to topple Castro

That time the CIA tried to topple Castro

By Jessica Evans

soviet fighter jet intercepted

That time the USAF intercepted a pilotless Soviet fighter

soviet transport plane copied this american aircraft.

The Soviets ripped off this strange Boeing transport plane

By Harold C. Hutchison

One of the closest brushes with nuclear war was Russia vs China