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Russia had a secret, Cold War-era space station equipped with cannons
Back in 1968, three Apollo 8 astronauts circled the moon on Christmas Eve and returned home, where they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade and honored on the cover of Time. Far out of sight from...
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A Cold War technology designed to make jets fly for days might solve Earth's...
Humanity is in a serious pinch for energy.The world population may balloon to 9 billion people by 2040, up from 7.36 billion in 2016, and researchers believe this will translate to a 48% jump in energy...
View ArticleAnimated map shows every nuclear-bomb explosion in history
President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that the US needed to "expand its nuclear capability." When he was later asked about the tweet by "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski, Trump responded "let it be an...
View ArticleHere's who had the stronger military during the Cold War
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A top Russian official says relations with the US are at the lowest level...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Relations between Russia and the United States are at the lowest level since the Cold War, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, citing Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's Deputy...
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The 15 most incredible plutonium-powered space missions of all time
When it comes to free energy, nothing beats the giant ball of plasma that is the sun. That's why engineers slap solar panels onto most spacecraft.However, most of outer space is a dark, lonely void...
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Top Putin spokesman: 'Fake news' that Flynn meaningfully discussed sanctions...
Russian President Vladimir Putin's top spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday that US-Russian relations had cratered since the 2016 US presidential election, and he...
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Russian submarines are operating at a level unseen since the Cold War
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian navy says its submarines have increased combat patrols to the level last seen during the Cold War.The navy chief, Adm. Vladimir Korolyov, said Friday in remarks carried by...
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'They're a global navy': US admiral says Russian naval activity in Europe...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Recent Russian naval activity in Europe exceeds levels seen during the Cold War, a top U.S. and NATO military officer said, voicing concern that the distributed nature of the...
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These 11 declassified maps show how the CIA saw the world at the height of...
Perhaps more so than any other tool used by the clandestine services, an accurate map can mean the difference between success and failure — or between life and death.The CIA, renowned for its secrecy,...
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Inside Britain's secret underground city built during the Cold War to protect...
In December 2004, a short announcement was posted on the Ministry of Defence's website.It read: "A formerly secret Government underground site near Corsham in Wiltshire, which was a potential...
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In 1946, Winston Churchill gave a speech at a tiny Missouri college that...
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill stepped up to the podium at a tiny college in rural Fulton, Missouri. Flanked by US President Harry Truman, the former British prime minister proceeded to point out...
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That time American and Russian tanks faced off in a divided Berlin
Continuing tensions with Russia over its annexation of Crimea, backing of separatists in Ukraine, dealing weapons to the Taliban, and the hacking of the U.S. elections have led to many people on both...
View ArticleHere's why there are mysterious giant barcodes across the US
If you fly over certain parts of the US, you can look down and see massive "barcodes" spread throughout the land. Most of the barcodes are about 78' wide and 53' long, and their origin dates back to...
View ArticleExplorers snuck into a Russian military base and captured footage of...
The US is not the only country that has retired space shuttles; Russia has done the same. But Russia did it back in the 1990s. Recently, members of the YouTube channel Exploring the Unbeaten Path snuck...
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3 things from the book '1984' that seem especially chilling today
Some critics speculated that George Orwell's relevance would fade after the year 1984. Harold Bloom wrote in 1987 that Orwell's great novel of totalitarianism, 1984, threatened to become a period...
View ArticleIn 1959, the US sent mail by replacing a missile's nuclear warhead with...
During the Cold War, the United States Postal Service and the US Navy experimented with delivering mail via Regulus missile.Join the conversation about this story »
View ArticleHere’s why there are nuclear fallout shelter signs on buildings in NYC
Signs on building throughout New York City are all that's left of a widespread government effort to shelter millions of people from the fallout of a nuclear attack. Whether building basements would...
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Hurricane Irma may plow into a site full of Cold War-era nuclear waste
Hurricane Irma, or what's left of it, may plow into the continental US over the weekend.There's a chance the damaging winds and heavy rainfall could affect Savannah River Site, a large Cold War-era...
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The Russian man who 'saved the world' in 1983 has died
Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer known in the West as “the man who saved the world” for his role in averting a nuclear war over a false missile warning at the height of the Cold War,...
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