During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...

The term “Franken weapon” evokes an image of weird armaments—something unnatural and even satirical, as if the Battle of the Bulge met the eponymous monster of the famous novel. But these odd weapons ...

History is filled with wars, that’s just a natural part of the human condition. It is in the annals of history that we find the deadliest weapon ever fielded. However, the answer to what that weapon ...

Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service’s history using nukes, explaining why they were originally abandoned in 1998. For 43 years, the ...

Sometimes we like to think the idiom that bigger is better applies to nearly anything. In reality, this is rarely the case, and perhaps the best example of where bigger is not necessarily better is in ...

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From car keys to glasses to rifles, everyone misplaces something important from time to time. But when you’re the U.S. government, sometimes that important thing is a superweapon that is designed to ...

History isn’t short on creative ways to ruin other people’s lives. Long before drones or guided munitions, opium addicted inventors across continents were thinking, “But what if our weapons also spun, ...