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Aug 21, 2018

US Air Force Zooms Ahead on 2 New Hypersonic Weapons Plans

The arms race is picking up considerable speed, and the United States doesn't want to get left behind. Over the past four months, the U.S. Air Force has awarded two contracts for hypersonic weapons worth a maximum of $1.4 billion to aerospace giant Lockheed Martin. The first contract, announced in...

Sep 4, 2018

Microwave Weapon Blamed for Apparent Attack on US Embassy in Cuba

Why did dozens of U.S. Embassy workers in Cuba hear loud sounds and suffer neurological symptoms in 2016? There's a new, Cold War-era microwave explanation for the mystery. The Havana-based diplomats reported hearing loud, strange sounds and feeling movement in the air around them. Those affected went on to experience...

Sep 26, 2018

WWII Bombs Had Rippling Effect on the Edge of Space

Nearly 80 years on, impacts from the violent bombings of World War II are still felt around the globe. Christopher Scott would know —two of his aunts were killed at just 9 and 11 years of age during the London Blitz, Nazi Germany's eight-month onslaught against the British. Those aerial...

Oct 24, 2018

Vintage WWII Fighter Plane Crashes on California Highway

A small vintage plane dressed up as a World War II Nazi aircraft crashed on California's highway 101 yesterday (Oct. 24), according to recent news reports. No one was injured in the crash. The pilot, later identified as Ron Sandberg, took off from Van Nuys Airport for a training exercise...

Nov 1, 2018

The US Shot Down a Fake Nuclear Missile in Space with Another Missile (Video)

A U.S.-Japanese interceptor successfully shot down a test ballistic missile over Hawaii. It was the second-ever success for the joint missile defense program, and a stunning technological accomplishment. Also, the whole thing was captured on video. The interceptor, called the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA, destroys targets with sheer force, rather...

Nov 13, 2018

Satellite Images Reveal North Korea's Missile Program Is Very Much Alive

North Korea's missile program is still very much alive, according to a report published this weekend. Experts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, D.C., defense and national security think tank, published commercial satellite images showing that a missile base called Sakkanmol remains capable and active....

Dec 12, 2018

The US Lost 1 Warship in WWI. 100 Years Later, We Know What Caused the Sinking.

The only major U.S. warship lost in World War I was brought down by a German mine, new research confirms. The USS San Diego sank about 8 miles (13 kilometers) from Fire Island, New York, on July 19, 1918. Although the ship went down rapidly — in just 28 minutes...

Jan 7, 2019

China May Have Put a Working Electromagnetic Gun on a Warship. Is This a Big Deal?

China appears to have beaten the U.S. in the race to mount a rail gun on a battleship, as Popular Mechanics reported Dec. 31. Does it matter? Sort of. Maybe. Rail guns are devices that use electromagnetism to hurl projectiles over long distances, speeding them on much faster than gunpowder-based...

Jan 7, 2019

Mysterious Sounds Recorded at Cuba Embassy Were … Crickets

In late 2016, dozens of staffers at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba fell sick after reportedly hearing mysterious noises in their hotels or homes. Afterward, they reported severe physical symptoms, including vertigo, headaches, ear pain and even cognitive difficulties and hearing loss. Researchers obtained a recording of the sounds captured...

Jan 10, 2019

Maggots Will Soon Be Sent to War Zones to Heal the Injured

Maggots can be creepy, crawly and … medicinal? In a new effort to heal wounded people in war zones, the U.K. government is sending maggots to places like Syria, Yemen and South Sudan, according to The Telegraph. Once these larvae — often those of green bottle blowflies — are connected...

Jan 15, 2019

WWI German Sub Spotted Off French Coast, 100 Years After Its Crew Surrendered

More than 100 years ago, a German crew aboard a submarine during World War I mistakenly ran aground in northern France. The 26 Germans promptly surrendered and abandoned the submarine, which completely sank into the sandy muck by the 1930s. But now, shifting sands are slowly revealing the submarine, officially...

Jan 21, 2019

Secret Soviet Bunkers in Poland Hid Nuclear Weapons

In the 1960s, the Soviet Union built massive bunkers in Poland. These bunkers didn't appear on maps, and were carefully concealed to be invisible to spies from the air. But now, these long-abandoned buildings are revealing some of the secrets of Russian military strategy during the Cold War. Soviet documents...

Jan 29, 2019

Florida Couple Finds a Grenade. Next Stop: Taco Bell?

What would you do if you came across a World War II hand grenade? For a Florida couple who stumbled upon a grenade during a fishing trip, the answer was clear: Take it to Taco Bell. On Jan. 26 at 5:01 p.m. local time, police dispatchers in Ocala, Florida, received...

Oct 18, 2019

Long-lost WWII ship found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean

After weeks spent surveying an area of ocean about the size of Houston, historians aboard the research vessel Petrel spotted the wreckage of a World War II ship on the floor of the Pacific. The Japanese vessel, a flagship carrier called Kaga, sank on June 4, 1942, during the Battle...

Nov 26, 2019

Identity of Fourth Soviet Spy Who Stole US Atomic Bomb Secrets Finally Revealed

Three American spies were long known for having stolen U.S. atomic secrets between 1940 and 1948, sharing that information with the Soviets. Their actions fast-tracked the U.S.S.R's development of nuclear weapons and set the stage for the Cold War. But in fact, there was a fourth spy — code-name Godsend...