The Cold War nuclear test that turned the sky crimson
The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.
1958 Las Vegas military jet and passenger plane collision sparks the formation of the FAA
United Air Lines Flight 736, a DC-7 passenger plane carrying 47 people, had collided with an Air Force F-100F fighter jet ...
Larry Wilson: I, Donald Trump, will drop an atomic bomb on Canada
I, Donald John Trump, will drop an atomic bomb on you, Canada, unless you reduce the price of automatic transmissions for use ...
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COMMENTARY: A super-seismic upheaval, but how long ago?
The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...
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Inside Project A119, America’s Top-Secret Plot To Detonate A Nuclear Bomb On The Moon During The Cold War
"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...