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Beginning in the 1950s, American and Soviet scientists embarked on a perilous race to see who could build and detonate the world’s largest bomb. The results exceeded all expectations about how big a...

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Richard Rhodes Richard Rhodes is an American journalist and historian is the author or editor of twenty-three books including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a...

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See archival images, stills from reenactments, and images of individuals featured in The World’s Biggest Bomb. The post Behind the Scenes Gallery appeared first on Secrets of the Dead.

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Fifty years ago, in October 1962, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. On October 22, 1962, after reviewing photographic evidence, President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the...

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Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW’s revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies...

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See stills and images of individuals featured in Secrets of the Dead: Bugging Hitler's Soldiers The post Behind the Scenes Gallery appeared first on Secrets of the Dead.

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