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Demon Core: The Day Curiosity Killed

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From Hiroshima’s first operational strike to the Demon Core’s deadly lessons, this is how nukes, missteps, and raw physics still terrify a very modern world.

Royce Williams: America’s First Stealth Ace

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Fighter pilots are invariably obnoxious extroverts. I’ve known a few. The profession selects for those particular character traits. They honestly earn that. When your job is to climb all by your lonesome into a machine filled with kerosene that will propel you faster than some bullets so you can go

Gunfire in London: The 1911 Sidney Street Siege

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The 1911 Siege of Sidney Street: a deadly London gunfight where Churchill deployed troops against anarchists.

Not All Killing is Created Equal

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Israel invades Gaza in response to one of the most egregious terrorist attacks in modern history, and the world had a conniption over it. Putin has snuffed as many as 400,000 lives in his ill-conceived invasion of Ukraine, and college students aren’t making a peep about that.

Testing the shooting of President Ronald Reagan.

AK Guy Recreates the Reagan Assassination Attempt

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In a ballistic reenactment, Herrera manages to duplicate a similar ricochet effect into a ballistic dummy, demonstrating how the small .22 LR round could follow an unpredictable path through soft tissue after deflection.

Operation Grim Beeper – Inside Israel’s Pager Trap

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Discover how Israel weaponized pagers and radios to take out hundreds of Hezbollah fighters in one of Mossad’s boldest covert ops.

The Bixby Shootout That Shook Abbeville, SC

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The 2003 Bixby standoff in Abbeville, SC, left two officers dead and exposed the dangers of sovereign citizen extremism.

Operation Just Cause: Fighting to the Death Over an Airport Restroom

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All proper soldiers want to come home with a good story. You’d like to be able to sit down someday with your grandkids and tell them how you rescued the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders from the clutches of some evil despot. Tragically, the real world seldom works out quite like that.

3-Will-The Sailor with the Nautical Name Who Bookended World War 2

The Sailor with the Uniquely Nautical Name Who Bookended World War 2

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Discover Noah Adair, WWII naval heroics from Atlantic U-boats to Pacific kamikaze battles, and the family’s legacy of service.

Did Henry Tandey Spare Hitler? The Story Behind the Myth

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Adolf Hitler. Amidst humanity’s literally countless certifiable homicidal maniacs, Hitler consistently ranks number 1 on the psycho hit parade.