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On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project detonated a plutonium...
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On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project detonated a plutonium...
For all the talk of spending targets, the Ankara NATO summit's real work happened elsewhere. Europe is being handed responsibility for NATO's conventional defense...
NASA receives 12,000 to 18,000 applications in a typical astronaut cycle and selects about ten to twelve people, an acceptance rate well below one...
The jet in the air-show photos is not Russia's cancelled stealth fighter. It is the stand-in for a fighter that was never built at...
On 18 March 1965, the Soviet Union sent Alexei Leonov outside Voskhod 2 for the first spacewalk in history. The mission became a Space...
On September 6, 1976, a disillusioned Soviet lieutenant landed his MiG-25 at a civilian airport in Japan and handed the West its first look...
No combat jet in service flies faster than Russia's MiG-31. It carries the Kinzhal hypersonic missile, reaches into Ukrainian skies, and probes NATO's borders....
In 1997, the Pentagon bought 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters out from under Iran and flew them to Ohio in pieces. The bargain was real,...
There was nothing unusual about that Friday morning at the Malton plant, where some of the most advanced aircraft on Earth were taking shape....
The U-2 was sold to Eisenhower as invisible to Soviet radar. The invisibility lasted exactly zero missions. What Kelly Johnson built to replace it...