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Hitler's Stealth Fighter

In the final months of WWII, a jet powered flying wing made its first test flight from a remote airfield deep inside Nazi Germany. Generations ahead of its time, the Horten 229 had been designed to be a lethal high speed fighter-bomber and more importantly, virtually undetectable to Allied radar.|Read More|

Dead Hand - Soviet Doomsday Machine

Dead hand the commonly accepted name for a system developed by the former Soviet Union to allow the country to retaliate against a nation aggressor should a nuclear strike destroy or incapacitate the Soviet leadership. Such a strike is known as a nuclear decapitation.|Read More|

The Runit Dome

50 years after the US military's nuclear testing in the Pacific ended, Marshall islanders are still living with the legacy of a decaying nuclear waste dump known as the Runit Dome.|Read More|

Goldsboro Broken Arrow

On 24 January 1961, Goldsboro North Carolina, a B-52 Stratofortress carrying two multi-megaton nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its thermonuclear payload near the tiny farming village of Faro.|Read More|

NASA�s Lost Female Astronauts

In the late 1950s, the United States government contemplated training women as astronauts, and newly released medical test results show that they were just as capable and tough as the men who went to the moon.|Read More|

Was Chuck Yeager the First to Break the Sound Barrier?

The story of how Captain Chuck Yeager opened the throttles of the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis in October 1947 is well known. Breaking the sound barrier was to aviation what Neil Armstrong's first step was to the space program. Yeager's name will always sit atop every list of record-breaking pilots, up there by himself in his own special stratosphere. But, was he really the first pilot to fly faster than sound?|Read More|

Apollo 11

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing moon in July 1969. While 600 million people watched on TV, Neil Alden Armstrong stepped from the LM, and set foot in the dust of Mare Tranquillitatis. The Apollo moon landings were one of the greatest achievement in human history, and have been an inspiration to all mankind for the last 40 years.|Read More|

Unit 731 - The Asian Auschwitz

1932, Pingfang Northern China was the home of Unit 731, the world�s first biological war complex. Masterminded by army doctor General Shiro Ishii, who believed that biological weapons were so powerful, that the normal doctrine of medicine to save lives should be reversed. Today the world is still threatened by the technology pioneered by unit 731, one of this century�s most murderous collaborations between scientists and soldiers. |Read More|

Fritz Haber - The Father of Modern Chemical Warfare

When WW1 broke out in 1914, the German high command were confident of an early victory. However the war quickly stagnated into a trench-bound war of attrition, before one of Germanys leading scientists Fritz Haber, offered the Fatherland a way out of the impass. |Read More|

The Flying Crowbar

At the dawn of the atomic age, scientists began work on what might have been the nastiest weapon ever conceived. The SLAM was a failed U.S. Air Force project conceived at the height of the cold war. Although it never proceeded beyond the initial design phase, in the event of nuclear war it was intended to fly below the cover of enemy radar at supersonic speeds delivering thermonuclear warheads. |Read More|