9 American Cold War Tanks
The Second World War solidified the position of tanks as a vital tool in the modern military arsenal. And so, over the course the Cold…
5 Cold War British Tanks – Best in The World?
The Second World War consolidated the position of tanks as among the most important fighting machines in the world. In the decades that followed, the…
Filming of The Bridge at Remagen in Czechoslovakia Was Interrupted by the Soviet Invasion in 1968
From January 5 to August 21, 1968, a period of liberalization took place in Czechoslovakia called the Prague Spring. The first secretary of the Czechoslovak…
The Chosin Reservoir Battle, Memorable Heroics of a Forgotten War
On Thanksgiving Day 1950, in the extremely cold, windy mountains of North Korea, United Nations (U.N.) units of the American Army and Marine forces were…
Don’t Poop at 70,000 Feet: CIA Wrote a Manual for U-2 Pilots on How Not To
The U-2 spy plane, that long, sleek single engine monster that flew at 70,000 feet to photograph the earth’s surface on behalf of the CIA,…
Tsar Bomba: The Biggest Blast In Human History
That the world needs the threat of nuclear warfare to maintain a semblance of peace is a contradictory reality most people have come to accept.…
He Saved The World – This Man Refused To Launch Nuclear Missiles During The Cuban Missile Crisis
It’s commonly assumed that the crisis was avoided because U.S. President, John F. Kennedy, and Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, used all their diplomatic powers to…
Crazy: General Westmoreland initiated plan to use nukes in Vietnam
Recently, the New York Times ran an extraordinary article about the Vietnam War. In it were facts that have only recently come to light and…
Clive Dytor’s Battle-Winning Bayonet Charge in the Falklands War
British military history is full of stories of heroism against the odds. From the desperate defense of Rorke’s Drift against the massed Zulus to the…
When The USA Wanted To Nuke The Moon To Impress The Russians
In 1958, the United States developed a secret project to explode an atomic bomb on the surface of the moon. The explosion, when seen from…
If the Cold War Went Hot, the Skies of WW3 Would Look Like This
The Cold War wasn’t really a “war,” but an intense era of conflict between Russia and the USA that lasted nearly 50 years. Yet, there…
CRAZY: The U.S. Nearly Nuked North Korea Over the Captured Spy Ship USS Pueblo
On January 23, 1968, a run-down environmental research ship was conducting oceanographic studies when it was surrounded by North Korean naval forces, which demanded its…