Cold War

In the 1970s, the Soviets managed to intercept top secret communications in the US embassy in Moscow and nobody could figure out how. While an antenna was eventually found hidden in the embassy's chimney, it took years to determine how what data was being col…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Runit Dome houses tonnes of nuclear waste The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands. Dubbed "the tomb", it holds t…

Key point: Russia is acting out of fear that a U.S. first-strike that would decapitate the Russian leadership before it could give the order to retaliate. Russia has a knack for developing weapons thatat least on paperare terrifying: nuclear-powered cruise m…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption A still from the defence ministry video shows an Avangard warhead (computer simulation) Russia's first regiment of Avangard hypersonic missiles has been put into service, the defence ministry says. The location was…

Many historians consider the division of Europe in the aftermath of World War II inevitable, because, they believe, Soviet leader Josef Stalin was eager for communism to sweep the continent. But historian Norman Naimark disagrees. Stalin didn’t plan to have …

BONE MUSIC In the USSR during the cold war era, the music people could listen to was ruthlessly controlled by the State. But a secret underground subculture of music lovers and bootleggers defied the censor. Incredibly, they built their own recording machine…

Army M48 Patton tank Fort Knox US Army/Staff Sgt. Anri Baril A Cold War-era M48 Patton tank that's been a monument for the US Third Army and US Army Central underwent restoration at Fort Knox this fall. The tank, de-rusted, sealed, and new…

In this clip the Chernobyl Dice set to continuously generate numbers in the range . You can check out a longer YouTube clip showing various modes of here: https://youtu.be/8uue9Aae9ss Introduction Description The Chernobyl Dice is a quantum random n…

Key Point: A top expert gives us his take.  What if the F-14 Tomcat had never happened? The iconic fighter served the U.S. Navy for more than thirty years before finally (and some say prematurely) being retired in 2006. Over time, the F-14 shifted from its i…

It was the summer of 1959, and the United States needed a Cold War to win. In 1957, the Soviet bloc scored a major technological victory with Sputnik 1. The next year, Chinas Communist leadership launched the sweeping, and ultimately devastating, Great Leap F…