During World War 2, a British engineering scientist had a Big Idea. The Big Idea was to bomb a German dam, causing massive water loss to German industry. His plan was to drop bombs from low-flying aircraft, and skip them into the dam...

Mr. Griot explains American symbols and their meanings, focusing especially on the lyrics to the National Anthem, The Star Spangled Banner.

This video provides an overview of the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union following the end of World War II. It highlights key events such as the testing of atomic and hydrogen bombs by both superpowers, the...

You may have noticed in movies and tv shows that when a bomb falls through the sky, it makes a whistling sound. This has to do with the fighter planes and bomber planes of world war 2. During the second world war, German air force...

Little Boy And Fat Man are the nicknames given to the two weapons of mass destruction that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, seem ridiculous when thinking about what they were capable of doing. Little Boy was the first nuclear bomb to...

Is North Korea going to bomb us? Is North Korea a Threat? Is North Korea Communist? Why does North Korea Hate us? These (according to my extremely imprecise research) are the most common questions people in the world have about North...

Garwin part 4/11: This video provides a glimpse into the historical significance of Los Alamos, the site where the first atomic bomb was assembled during the Manhattan Project. The video also touches on the transition from the Manhattan...

If there’s one thing you hear over and over again in the American political discourse, it’s socialism as a word to represent generic badness. And America indeed doesn’t appear to have a left-wing party in their political system. Many...

Nations that develop nuclear weapons often do so as a deterrent to any would-be attacker; it is a significant investment and so these nations, especially the smaller nations on the nuclear list, are threatened by nations surrounding...

In this episode of Kult America, we explore Berlin's untouched battle scars and hunt for remaining elements of the second world war, such as national eagles and swastika's. Various locations of the city are still covered in bullet holes...

Freeze rays, invisible tanks and nanobots. These may sound like they belong in a sci-fi movie or a Bond villain's shopping list. But they're all real technologies being worked on right now. To know more about these weapons and more:...

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the First Suicide Bombers

The Telegraph's Political and Defence Correspondent, Danielle Sheridan, reports from the city of Chernihiv, northern Ukraine, where a school has been targeted repeatedly by Russian bombs.
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In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Early Air Assaults

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about Kazakhstan's Nuclear Problem

Hand grenades are small bombs that function like firecrackers. They are filled with gunpowder or explosive filler and a fuse. Hand grenades are activated via a mechanical device rather than requiring a person to light them with a match....

MOT 1944: CAROLINE ISLANDS BOMBING: VS Squadron of B-24 Liberator bombers of the Seventh Air Force (7th Air Force) & Thirteenth Air Force (13th Air Force) flying, dropping bombs over Truk Islands, explosions, heavy smoke. WWII,...

MOT 1952: USAF JETS: AERIAL F-85 'Sabre' fighter jets in line, pulling away, CU Throttle joystick w/ gloved hand, four rockets firing from aircraft, plane on ground exploding. VS F-85 'Sabre' in flight, firing rockets, bombs, low pass...

Pakistan’s beautiful Swat Valley transforms into ‘the Valley of Death’ when the Taliban move in. When Pakistan’s army finally makes a stand against the Taliban, the people of Swat Valley are caught between two warring giants. It’s not...

How to you use humor in a speech or presentation opening (Part 2 of 5). Many options exist to grab your audience's attention when public speaking but I do not recommend telling punchline jokes.

Unless you are a truly...

In August of 1945, we as a species entered into a new age. In many ways we achieved technological miracles orders of magnitude greater than our ancestors could ever imagine. We are also now living in the only period in our species’...

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan ended World War II in 1945. At the time, Americans were happy the war was over and some people even wanted to drop more atomic bombs. This radio story describes how Americans’...

In 1954, the US Government conducted a series of secret nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands. The idyllic coral island Bikini Atoll became the epicentre of the largest nuclear test disaster in US history. The affects of radiation...

Learn about inventions that were created during the Cold War, such as the Internet and different kinds of military equipment.