The 5 most ingenious weapons ever created for combat
China and Russia are designing new, futuristic weapons that can supposedly take down an entire aircraft carrier anywhere in the world or zoom past American radar and detection defenses. These…
That time we almost launched the atomic bomb on North Korea
On November 30, 1950, the United States was deeply entrenched in the Korean War after suffering a surprise attack on its troops. On this day, President Truman issued the thinly veiled…
The 5 most ingenious weapons ever created for combat
China and Russia are designing new, futuristic weapons that can supposedly take down an entire aircraft carrier anywhere in the world or zoom past American radar and detection defenses. These…
How German nuclear scientists reacted to news of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The United States wasn’t the only country working on creating the world’s first nuclear weapon during World War II. The British had their own atomic weapons program at the beginning…
Sticky grenades are only really a thing in video games and movies
From a video game standpoint, it makes sense: A weapon that racks up in-game kills without the hassle of managing a frag grenade bouncing all over the…
An assassin tried to kill a member of the Saudi royal family with a butt bomb
Muhammad bin Nayef is the grandson of the founder of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud, a former crown prince, former interior minister of the kingdom, and architect of the government’s counterinsurgency…
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…
That one time the US detonated a nuke right over a bunch of soldiers
It was a clear beautiful day in the desert outside of Las Vegas on July 19, 1957 when the Air Force detonated a nuclear bomb over the heads of five soldiers as the cameras rolled.
No it wasn’t some torturous experiment or forced puni…
All-female Air Force team wins bomb-building competition
The first all-female team to compete in the Rapid Aircraft Generation and Employment competition at Aviano Air Base, Italy, took home the win, the Air Force announced last week. And they did it while wearing costumes that paid tribute to Rosie the R…
A nuclear attack would most likely target one of these US cities
The chance that a nuclear bomb would strike a US city is slim, but nuclear experts say it’s not out of the question.
A nuclear attack in a large metropolitan area is
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