In the film, Captain America: The First Avenger, the Red Skull (SPOILER ALERT) attempts to attack the United States by flying over it and attacking from the air. While fictional, the plot line bears resemblance to a real-life Nazi plot. What was the mysterious Amerika-Bomber project? And how close did it come to achieving its…
This week’s big movie, Captain America: The First Avenger, features a fictional super-soldier serum developed during World War II. This serum is capable of turning a sickly, small man named Steve Rogers into the physical peak of human perfection known as Captain America. With the world aflame during the 1940’s, the very thought of wielding…
During the 1950s, Herman Kahn and Harold Brown proposed the concept of a weapon that could destroy all life on earth. In the event of a nuclear attack from another nation, a computer would detonate multiple salted hydrogen bombs, covering the globe with lethal radioactive material. They called it a Doomsday Machine. Fortunately, such a…
On May 11, 1944, 363 U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Liberators and 536 other military planes launched into the air over southeast England. After joining into a massive formation, they flew to Nazi-controlled France to bomb marshalling yards. Their efforts impacted the outcome of the war. But they may have impacted something else as well…the…
On September 7, 1776, a sudden explosion rocked New York’s East River, causing a tower of water and chunks of wood to soar high into the air. The cause behind this bedlam? America’s Turtle, an invention of David Bushnell and the world’s first submarine deployed in combat. It’s one of the most significant crafts of…
Did Osama Bin Laden really die in Pakistan? Was his corpse truly stuffed into a rubber-lined canvas body bag, weighed down with lead, and then buried in the North Arabian Sea? According to a recent interview with TMZ, deep sea treasure hunter Bill Warren intends to find out. “I am doing it because I am a patriotic American…