Are Combat Deaths Receding?
Angolan Children Troops (Getty Images) .I think about the fact that in a single evening, the Germans dropped 1000 tons of ordinance …
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Cold War
The Night Goldsboro, North Carolina Was Almost Vaporized.
. January 1961. The Cold War is on fire, effulgent, clandestine, and deadly. The nuclear Triad, the three ways we intended to deliver …
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One Of The Most Significant UFO Sightings In History.
B-52 Radarscope Photo Indicating UFO Nuclear Weapons were wielded by three portions of the United States military during the Cold War. The Navy …
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The Corkscrew Tank.
Here is one of the funniest success stories I have ever read in military technology. The Russians were extremely creative, if not always …
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Cold War Bomber Intercepts
During the Cold War, Soviet and US bomber aircraft often probed the defenses of each other by flying into each other’s airspace or close to …
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Cold War Missile Silo Homes.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0RjKgj24Rs[/youtube] In the 1960s, Americans and the United States military and public information establishment went underground to find protection from the looming …
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Creepy Imagined Atomic Bomb Attack On Atlanta During Training Mission In 1950s Magazine.
The following is word for word, the article that appeared in the March 1956 edition of Modern Mechanix that imagines an atomic bomb dropped on …
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The UFOs That Spooked Minot Air Force Base.
For years the official and most recognizable organization that studied and catalogued UFO sightings was NICAP, or the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomenon. …
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President Kennedy’s Bomb Shelter.
The Cold War really scared people into thinking they had to build a bomb shelter that would shield them in the case a nuclear weapon was sent to their towns and cities. One was built for President Kennedy.
Beware Object 279.
At the outset of the Cold War, weapons designers were hard at work on both sides of the Berlin Wall seeking to stay ahead of …
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Military Anecdote Day
“In 1962, when working for Reuters, Frederick Forsyth was posted to East Berlin where he nearly started the Third World War. Returning home late one …
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Marshall Tito’s Eagle
In the early 1980s, Romania and Yugoslavia decided to replace the J-21 Jastreb fighter bomber with an improved aircraft. It also replaced the F-84 …
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Operation Vittles. The Food Fight That Almost Started WWIII.
A Soviet anti-aircraft artillery unit moved in front of the RAF field at Gatow and fired incendiary bullets at British aircraft in and around Gatow.