Will Dabbs

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The M388 Muzzleloading Micro-Nuke: Serious Man-Portable Firepower

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Estimated reading time: 11 minutes On 6 August 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets dropped the first atomic bomb from the B29 Superfortress Enola Gay on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This weapon, an enriched uranium gun-type design designated “Little Boy,” exploded 1,500 feet above the ground and had a nominal yield of around 15 kilotons. That [...]

Vitalii Volodymyrovych Skakun: Some Gave All

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There is a fellowship intrinsic to military service that is tough to describe to those who have not lived it. For starters, we were all so terribly young.

Diana: Huntress of Bus Drivers

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Warlords, drug kingpins, or just garden-variety criminals can make life a living hell for good folks who just want to go about their business.

The Inimitable Power of Cold Steel

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I was eighteen years old. It would be another three years before society would trust me to drink a beer or buy a handgun, but Uncle Sam had taught me how to kill a man efficiently and effectively with a bayonet.

Viktor Bout: The Merchant of Death

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Lord of War was a simply magnificent movie. Second only to Raising Arizona, it was my favorite Nicolas Cage film ever. Cage’s character, a Ukrainian arms dealer named Yuri Orlov, was loosely based on Viktor Bout.

The University Greys: The Highwater Mark of Misplaced Hope

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Though the nuances are lost on a modern generation of lamentably binary Americans, imbedded within the school’s history we see the possibility that very good people might support some very bad causes.

The 2012 Empire State Building Shooting: Cop Carnage

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Thirty people have successfully committed suicide off of the building despite some fairly extensive impediments specifically designed to dissuade such sordid stuff.

The Mysterious Death of Superman

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George Reeves played one of the most iconic roles in the history of television, yet he was still never satisfied. Methinks there’s a message in there someplace, something deep and timeless, perhaps.

The 1927 Bath School Bombing

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Assault weapons, whatever they are, seem to be the perennial target of gun-banning Leftists whenever anything bad happens in America. However, back in 1927, a lunatic named Andrew Kehoe showed us that a proper monster can sow a profound amount of chaos without using a firearm.

Vasili ARkhipov as a young man

Vasili Arkhipov and the Most Dangerous Day in Human History

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On one of the most dangerous day in US history, Vasili ARkhipov diffused the eminent nuclear attack and saved the world from Soviet missiles and war.