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Archive Gallery: PopSci Spies on the Soviet Union
Russia's Growing Air Power View Photo GalleryWhen it comes to technological advances, few periods were as prolific as the Cold War era, which saw the mass distribution of color TV sets, the ubiquity...
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Secret Cyber War Games Between U.S. and China Let Countries Role-Play Their...
U.S. Navy Wargames Naval officers operate the Ectocryp Black Secure Voice Gateway during Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2011 at SPAWAR Systems Center, Pacific. CWID is an annual...
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How To Survive The Apocalypse, Cold War-Style
1951 family foxhole Popular Science archive The world is definitely not going to end today. So don't worry. But! If you enjoy worrying, or just really want to be prepared for future apocalypses, then...
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7 Of The Creepiest Cold War Fallout Shelters
Fallout Shelter Basics: September 1959 Popular Science archives View Photo GalleryPresident John F. Kennedy appointed America's first civil defense chief for nuclear war preparedness in 1961, during...
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Captured On Google Earth: Mysterious Barcode Patterns Strewn Across U.S. Land
Tri-Bar Test Pattern at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida google earth View Photo GalleryClick here to enter the galleryConsider it a barcode for bombers--an eye test for spy planes. Across empty...
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11 Relics Of Space History That You Can Buy
Goodwill Disc Courtesy Bonhams View Photo GalleryWhen astronaut James Lovell put his Apollo 13 Lunar Module Activation Checklist up for auction in Dallas last year, the artifact sold for a record...
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Carbon Test Determines Whether A Piece Of Ivory Is Legal Or Illegal
Baby Elephant with Tusked Adult Richard Muller, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory One way poachers get the big elephants they want is by shooting a baby elephant, first. The young animal won't have a lot...
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CIA Kept Area 51 Secret Because Rumors Cooler Than Reality
A Pair Of U-2 Spyplanes One the left is an original U-2, with an 80 feet wingspan, and on the right is a U-2R with a wingspan of 103 feet. Wikimedia Commons Yesterday the CIA declassified a 400-page...
View ArticleArchive Gallery: PopSci Spies on the Soviet Union
When it comes to technological advances, few periods were as prolific as the Cold War era, which saw the mass distribution of color TV sets, the ubiquity of…
View ArticleSecret Cyber War Games Between U.S. and China Let Countries Role-Play Their...
China and the U.S. are playing pretend war to vent their mutual frustrations and avoid a real one, according to a report by the Guardian. The State and Defense departments…
View ArticleHow To Survive The Apocalypse, Cold War-Style
The world is definitely not going to end today. So don't worry. But! If you enjoy worrying, or just really want to be prepared for future apocalypses, then the March 1951…
View ArticleMysterious Barcode Patterns Strewn Across U.S. Land [Gallery]
Consider it a barcode for bombers--an eye test for spy planes. Across empty stretches of the United States, an odd Cold War artifact persists. It is a series of asphalt…
View Article11 Relics Of Space History That You Can Buy
When astronaut James Lovell put his Apollo 13 Lunar Module Activation Checklist up for auction in Dallas last year, the artifact sold for a record $388,375 -- and got him in…
View ArticleCarbon Test Determines Whether A Piece Of Ivory Is Legal Or Illegal
One way poachers get the big elephants they want is by shooting a baby elephant, first. The young animal won't have a lot of ivory on it, but the kill draws in the mother,…
View ArticleCIA Kept Area 51 Secret Because Rumors Cooler Than Reality
Yesterday the CIA declassified a 400-page document about Area 51, the secret facility in the Nevada desert that has fascinated armchair historians and tormented conspiracy…
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Fallout 4 Revisits Our Cold War Nightmare Shelters
Nuclear Family In Fallout ShelterPopular Science ArchivesAt 10:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, the world ended. The announcement came through a news broadcast in a video trailer for Fallout 4, the latest...
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Here Are The Weapons Of The New Cold War
M1 Abrams In GermanyRichard Bumgardner, U.S. Army Photo, via Wikimedia CommonsSeventy years after the first Cold War began, and almost 24 years after it ended, the United States is again stationing...
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The CIA's Bold Kidnapping of a Soviet Spacecraft
One day in late 1959 or 1960 -- dates aren't totally clear in declassified documents -- a crack team of four CIA agents worked through the night in stocking feet taking apart a kidnapped Soviet Lunik...
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9 Technologies That Didn't Exist When The Queen Was Born
Technology Queen Elizabeth II turns 90 years old today Queen Elizabeth II was born on April 21, 1926.
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Spies Hid Messages Inside Dead Rats
Military According to a CIA report Rats covered in hot sauce might sound like some sort of exotic, disturbing delicacy, but it was a tool of the CIA's trade in Soviet Russia.
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