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The Soviet Vityaz Was The Big Dog Of The Cold War
Take the all-terrain capabilities of the US Army’s new packbot, add the uncanny reliability of a Kalishnakov and some tank treads — Boom! You’ve got yourself an unstoppable killing machine cargo transporter.
The US Almost Fired Missiles At Australia – With Our PM’s Approval
The 1980s weren’t just about Walkmans and Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet album – the early 80s was also the climax of the Cold War between Russia and the USA. And now, 30 years later, the national archives has released classified documents that shows then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser signed off on a proposal to let the US fire MX missiles from California into the Tasman Sea.
Was The Space Shuttle Just A Science-less Cold War Weapon?
Deploying and maintaining the Hubble has been one of the biggest boons to man’s understanding of the remote cosmos. But vivid examples like that aside, how much did the shuttle help science? Not at all, says one renowned astrophysicist.
Russian Cosmonaut: Our Shuttle Was Safer, Could Drop Nukes From Orbit
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R.I.P. Hervey Stockman, First Pilot To Fly A Spy Plane Over Soviet Territory
Cold War Bunker On eBay Has Bids Reaching $US35,000
You’ll have to travel to England’s Peak District to collect – and when I say collect, I mean “bunker down”, but the 15m x 15m bunker in a genuine souvenir from the Cold War, used by the Royal Observer Corps.
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