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Here's How a Princeton Physicist Lost Classified H-Bomb Documents in 1953 … on a Night Train
Dec 6, 2019
Here's How a Princeton Physicist Lost Classified H-Bomb Documents in 1953 … on a Night Train
Perhaps you've recently forgotten where you parked your car, or lost track of your house keys or your phone. You're still better off than the physicist who in 1953 misplaced secret government documents about the first hydrogen bomb. John Archibald Wheeler was a pioneer in physics, blazing trails in the...
Why Didn't the Allies Bomb Auschwitz?
Jan 20, 2020
Why Didn't the Allies Bomb Auschwitz?
In the spring of 1944, Allied forces received disturbing intelligence about horrific atrocities taking place at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland, a place now known as one of the Nazis' most brutal extermination camps. Two escaped Jewish prisoners revealed first-hand knowledge of the horrors they experienced, and the Allies faced a...
Sophisticated Soviet spy radio discovered buried in former forest in Germany
Feb 18, 2020
Sophisticated Soviet spy radio discovered buried in former forest in Germany
Archaeologists digging for the remains of a Roman villa near the German city of Cologne have found a sophisticated Soviet spy radio that was buried there shortly before the fall of the Iron Curtain. The spy radio was buried inside a large metal box that was hermetically sealed with a...
Wreckage of lost American WWII planes finally found, in a Pacific lagoon
Feb 21, 2020
Wreckage of lost American WWII planes finally found, in a Pacific lagoon
Three WWII aircraft that were shot down during a decisive U.S. victory in the Pacific Ocean were missing for decades. Now, 76 years later, they have been found. A recovery operation discovered pieces of the long-lost planes at the bottom of Truk Lagoon in Chuuk State, part of the Federated...
UFO 'invasion' of NATO war games revealed in 'Project Blue Book' season finale
Mar 24, 2020
UFO 'invasion' of NATO war games revealed in 'Project Blue Book' season finale
When a massive international war-games exercise known as Operation Mainbrace convened in the North Sea in 1952, it brought together 80,000 military personnel, 1,000 planes and 200 ships from nine countries. There were also some unexpected attendees: UFOs. Multiple sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) during Operation Mainbrace (also known...
Sword fighting with Bronze Age weapons is really hard, scientists learn
May 7, 2020
Sword fighting with Bronze Age weapons is really hard, scientists learn
Hefty Bronze Age swords are an impressive sight, but scholars have long wondered if these swords were primarily ornamental or if they were used regularly in combat. Modern researchers took a closer look at these weapons — even hoisting them in mock battles — and they discovered that not only...
VE Day: The end of World War II in Europe
May 7, 2020
VE Day: The end of World War II in Europe
In the early hours of May 7, 1945, representatives from the Allied high command accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, marking the end of World War II in Europe. The following day, nations around the continent and the world celebrated the victory and the beginning of hard-won peace after...
Why the British were doomed from the get-go in the American Revolutionary War
Jul 1, 2020
Why the British were doomed from the get-go in the American Revolutionary War
Despite the common belief that arrogance and overconfidence played major roles in the loss of the 13 colonies in North America, Britain was actually well aware of how difficult the task of quelling the rebellion would be. There was no hope of conquering America — the territory was too big...
'Ghost Army' in WWII used inflatable tanks to fool the Nazis and win the war
Sep 2, 2020
'Ghost Army' in WWII used inflatable tanks to fool the Nazis and win the war
Today (Sept. 2) marks the 75th anniversary of Word War II's end. During this historic global conflict, hundreds of bloody skirmishes were waged on land, sea and air. But one top-secret U.S. Army battalion fought not with bullets but with stagecraft, using inflatable life-size tanks, phony insignias, soundscapes and fake...
Why are Armenia and Azerbaijan fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region?
Oct 9, 2020
Why are Armenia and Azerbaijan fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region?
Since the end of September, hundreds of soldiers and civilians are thought to have been killed in a rapidly developing conflict between the rival Caucasus nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan. But why are they in conflict? It turns out that they're fighting over the landlocked, mountainous and kidney shaped Nagorno-Karabakh...
The Falklands War: Margaret Thatcher's great victory
Dec 2, 2020
The Falklands War: Margaret Thatcher's great victory
In 1982, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Argentine President General Leopoldo Galtieri had much in common. Both were fervently anti-Communist, both presided over nations in economic turmoil, and both were ruthless leaders prepared assert their power by going to war. On April 2, 1982, Argentina sent a force of...
Nazi 'Enigma' machine found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
Dec 7, 2020
Nazi 'Enigma' machine found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
Divers trying to remove old fishing nets from the Baltic sea have accidentally stumbled on a Nazi code-making machine. The Enigma machine, as it's called, looks a bit like a typewriter. In fact, the diver who found the device on the ocean floor initially thought that's what the artifact was,...
Doomsday Clock stands at 100 seconds to midnight
Jan 27, 2021
Doomsday Clock stands at 100 seconds to midnight
Nuclear weapons, global pandemics, accelerating climate change: Is humanity running out of time? Despite 2020's general awfulness, humanity paused on the path forward to armageddon — at least, according to the Doomsday Clock, a hypothetical timepiece that annually assesses our nearness to utter annihilation. This year, the Doomsday Clock's hands...
The Battle of Iwo Jima: A gruesome victory for the Allied Forces
Feb 19, 2021
The Battle of Iwo Jima: A gruesome victory for the Allied Forces
The Battle of Iwo Jima took place in 1945 during the final months of World War II. To this day, it is considered one of the most iconic clashes of the so-called Pacific campaign, or Pacific War — when American forces and their allies fought against Imperial Japan across the...
Raising the flag on Iwo Jima: Here's the story behind that iconic World War II photo
Feb 23, 2021
Raising the flag on Iwo Jima: Here's the story behind that iconic World War II photo
On Feb. 23, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima (Feb. 19 to March 26), six Marines planted the U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Suribachi. The scene was photographed by journalist Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press and his image soon became famous around the world. What many...
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