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Here Is How Russia’s Skyfall Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile Actually Works

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jun 19, 2026

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The Story Of Ukraine’s Rare Mi-24 Hind Radiation Detection Helicopters

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 10, 2026

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Experts Explain How Long It Would Take Russia To Resume Nuclear Weapons Detonation Tests

By Howard Altman

Updated on Nov 5, 2025

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Experts Explain How Reviving Nuclear Weapons Tests Would Actually Happen

By Howard Altman

Posted on Oct 30, 2025

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Soviets Tested ICBM Silo Defense System That Showered Incoming Warheads With Clouds Of Metal Darts

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 17, 2025

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A Royal Navy Nuclear Submarine Is Being Scrapped For The First Time

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jun 6, 2025

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America’s First Broken Arrow Incident Happened 75 Years Ago

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Feb 14, 2025

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The Navy Nearly Built A Nuclear Armed “Super Sidewinder” Air-To-Air Missile

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Feb 1, 2025

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Pros And Cons Of The Navy’s Controversial Submarine-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Nov 21, 2024

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First Plutonium Pit For Nuclear Warhead Produced In The U.S. In 35 Years Is Now “Weapon-Ready”

By Howard Altman

Posted on Oct 4, 2024

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America’s Cold War Doomsday Satellite

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jun 4, 2024

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Armored Range Rovers With Nuclear Past Just Auctioned Off

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Oct 31, 2023

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The Nuclear Scientist And The Warplane That Became Britain’s Most Unlikely Airliner

By Rowland White

Posted on Oct 13, 2023

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This ICBM-Launched Satellite Could Transmit Nuclear Codes When Nothing Else Was Left To

By Oliver Parken, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 29, 2023

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Special Forces Parachuted With Nukes Strapped To Them During The Cold War

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Jun 9, 2023

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Why Vertical Smoke Trails Are Seen During Nuclear Explosions

By Oliver Parken

Posted on May 12, 2023