During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...

Amateur detectorists exploring the historic fields near Gietrzwałd, Poland, have unearthed a remarkably rare medieval flail weapon known as a kiścień - only the fourth such artifact ever recorded in ...

World War 2 had its fair share of technologically advanced weapons. Take a look at some of the most forward-thinking to see ...

Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service’s history using nukes, explaining why they were originally abandoned in 1998. For 43 years, the ...

The term “Franken weapon” evokes an image of weird armaments—something unnatural and even satirical, as if the Battle of the Bulge met the eponymous monster of the famous novel. But these odd weapons ...

Across decades of warfare, only a handful of weapons earned the kind of trust that keeps them in service long after their ...

History is filled with wars, that’s just a natural part of the human condition. It is in the annals of history that we find the deadliest weapon ever fielded. However, the answer to what that weapon ...

History isn’t short on creative ways to ruin other people’s lives. Long before drones or guided munitions, opium addicted inventors across continents were thinking, “But what if our weapons also spun, ...