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Vasili Arkhipov - The Man Who Saved The World

In 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile Crisis, a Soviet Naval ofiicer prevented the launch of a nuclear armed torpedo, and therefore a possible nuclear war. |Read More|

The Atomic Boy Scout

Most kids have hobbies, but David Hahn's was slightly more exotic - atomic chemistry. While he was working on his Atomic Energy merit badge for the Boy Scouts, he built a nuclear reactor in his garden shed...|Read More|

Mars Bluff ''Broken Arrow''

On the afternoon of March 11, 1958, the children of the Gregg family were in their playhouse in the woods behind their house in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. About four o�clock they tired of the playhouse and moved 200 feet to the side yard. This kept them from becoming the first Americans killed by a nuclear weapon released on U.S. territory. |Read More|

Atomic Annie

Shortly after the creation of the first atomic bombs, the US became interested in weapons with 'limited' yield that could be used tactically, rather than strategically. One of the more interesting of these developments was atomic artillery, first tested in Nevada on May 25th 1953. |Read More|

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Ford Nucleon - The Atomic Car

During the 1950s, there was almost limitless enthusiasm for all things nuclear. There was no energy problem that the mighty atom could not tackle during that glorious and modern Atomic Age. |Read More|

The Tybee Bomb

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Tybee Broken Arrow incident. On the 5th of February 1958 during an exercise, two U.S.A.F. planes collided resulting in the loss of a Mk-15 nuclear weapon in U.S. coastal waters off Savannah, Georgia U.S.A. |Read More|

The Nedelin Catastrophe

The Nedelin disaster was a launch pad accident that occurred at Baikonur Cosmodrome during the development of the Soviet R-16 ICBM. The prototype missile exploded on the launch pad, killing over 100 military personnel, including the Strategic Rocket Forces Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin in the world's worst rocketry disaster. |Read More|

Project Orion - To Saturn by Atom bomb

During the 1950's, a project was set up to study the posibility of a spacecraft powered by nuclear weapons. Though this might seem farcical, the physics are actually sound, and small scale models using conventional explosives actually flew. |Read More|

Anthrax Island

During the dark days of World War II, the British government took over a small island in Scotland and tested the world's first anthrax bomb. |Read More|