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In October 1969 US nuclear forces went on a secret alert, and 18 B-52s flew toward the Soviet Union carrying hydrogen bombs. The order said the actions should be "discernible to the Soviets"; a White House memo asked...
Operation Mincemeat: in 1943 British intelligence dressed a dead man as a Royal Marines major and put him in the sea off Spain with forged letters. On 12 May the German Naval Staff's war diary says the mail...
War Plan Red: in May 1930 the US Joint Board agreed a secret plan for war with the British Empire. Its item seven: "Ultimately, to gain complete control of Crimson." Crimson is Canada. The plan's own reasoning: Crimson...
There’s been a lot of “communist” talk on the midterms campaign trail. It’s become Trump’s favorite new perceived threat coming from the left. But it’s actually not new at all. US politicians, especially on the right, have long...
Operation Paul Bunyan: on 21 August 1976, three days after two American officers were killed at Panmunjom, the US cut down one poplar tree with F-111s from Idaho, B-52s from Guam and an aircraft carrier from Japan in...
Operation Unthinkable: in May 1945, two weeks after VE Day, Winston Churchill's planners reported on an attack on the Soviet Union, with hostilities opening on 1 July 1945. The report gives the object as imposing "upon Russia the...
Parcel post began in the US on 1 January 1913, and within weeks people were asking to send children by it. A couple at Fort McPherson, Georgia wrote to Postmaster General Hitchcock asking what "specifications to use in...
Early in 897, Pope Stephen VI had the body of his predecessor, Pope Formosus, taken out of its tomb, dressed in papal robes, seated on a throne and put on trial, with a deacon standing by to answer...
Camp Century was a US Army base cut into Greenland's ice sheet from 1959, powered by a portable nuclear reactor. The Army's own film presents it as a research project and thanks Denmark, which Greenland is part of,...
On 5 February 1958, a B-47 bomber on a practice mission from Florida collided with an F-86 fighter over Georgia. It was carrying a Mark 15 nuclear bomb. Afraid a crash landing could set off the bomb's explosive,...
In 1958, the US Air Force asked a Chicago physicist, Leonard Reiffel, to study setting off a nuclear bomb on the Moon. His report, "A Study of Lunar Research Flights" (19 June 1959), lists Carl Sagan among its...
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The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York in crates in June 1885, and there was nothing to stand it on. France had paid for the statue; America was supposed to pay for the base. By December 1884...
The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on Monday, August 21, 1911, and nobody noticed until Tuesday. For two years the thief stayed unknown: police dogs, an old copyist who said the stolen one was his copy,...
Robert Lincoln was pulled from between a moving train and a platform in Jersey City by Edwin Booth, the actor, John Wilkes Booth's brother. In Robert's own words: "my coat collar was vigorously seized, and I was quickly...
The Hughes Glomar Explorer was built for the CIA to raise a Soviet submarine that sank in March 1968, "16,500 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean", under a deep-ocean mining cover story run through Howard Hughes'...
On 13 March 1962 the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent Defense Secretary Robert McNamara a Top Secret memo of "pretexts which would provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba", filed under the codename NORTHWOODS. It was signed...