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The US plan to survive a Soviet nuke was absolutely bonkers

A sudden flash. A mushroom cloud. A sudden expanding pressure wave. In the event of a thermonuclear attack, seeing these things means its probably too late to survive. So the U.S. developed warning systems to give Americans a heads up before the bom…

This is how the FBI responded to the worst biological attack in US history

The massive SAS legend who made it through selection. Twice.

These fighter pilots literally pushed their wingmen to safety

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This Green Beret spent his life fighting communists in three different armies

The Nazis had a nuclear reactor in World War II

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