In the summer of 1945, as American scientists anxiously awaited the detonation of the world’s first atomic device at a remote New Mexico test site...
In 1963, the US military attempted to solve a Cold War communication crisis by scattering 480 million copper needles into orbit — and Project West Ford actually worked, even as scientists worldwide scrambled to stop it. Decades later, those needles are still circling Earth, making this one of the most audacious and controversial secret experiments in military history.
In November 1932, the Australian military deployed to the wheat fields of Western Australia with machine guns and a mission: exterminate 20,000 emus that were...
The plan was, in its own way, elegant. Forty-four armed mercenaries would fly into the Seychelles posing as a rugby-playing beer club on holiday. They...
