Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. […] ...

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 ...

Across decades of warfare, only a handful of weapons earned the kind of trust that keeps them in service long after their ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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