I rarely get a chance to write about firearms, and I rarely want to, but kitup.military.com has just given me an opportunity. Choice quotes include, “[...] if you’re looking for something you can take home tonight, the gun for you is the Croatian RT20 20mm rifle. Developed to shoot the thermal sights off of Serbian [...]
Category Archives: History
Catastrophe on Nand Devi
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
From seattlepi.com, “In 1965, Schaller was part of an American spy team that tried to place a nuclear-powered surveillance device on top of Nanda Devi, one of the highest mountains in the world. That mission was a spectacular failure. The device and its nuclear core vanished along with, or so the CIA hoped, any news [...]
Hitler’s Heavy Water
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Along the lines of a previous post; here’s a little (or a lot) of interesting history In modern history there are few examples of such small works of sabotage leading to such dramatic effect. By some estimations, the raids at Vemork were all that prevented Hitler from gaining control over Europe and ruling with a [...]