Cold War

In the 1950s, the U.S. government built fake houses on its nuclear test site in Nevada, and many of them didn't survive.

Scientists from the expedition tagging whales in the Santa Barbara Channel.

Fifty-two Hertz, dubbed 'the loneliest whale in the world,' has roamed the Pacific for decades, singing at a much higher frequency than other whale species.

Los Angeles, California, is home to several segments of the Berlin Wall.

After the Berlin Wall fell, it didn’t completely disappear. Here are 15 surprising places where segments of the Berlin Wall stand today.

Tsar Bomba—the biggest hydrogen bomb ever—detonated in October 1961, and the Soviet Union caught it on tape.

From liaising with Martians to living on the moon, here’s where Soviet magazines thought the Cold War’s space race would take us.

George Orwell is best known for penning the dystopian novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'—regarded as one of the greatest classics of all time—but writing novels was only one small facet of his life and career.

In 1958, the Atomic Energy Commission decided to boost fishing commerce in Alaska by detonating a 1-megaton nuclear bomb to create a deep-water harbor. Residents were not amused.

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In 1952, at the height of the Cold War, elementary schools in Lake County, Indiana asked hundreds of students to line up, raise their arms, and get ready for the stabbing pain of a tattoo gun, all in the service of post-apocalyptic blood transfusions.

For many, living dozens of feet underground in a windowless bunker is the only way to scale the social ladder.

The project was about more than just high-speed delivery.

Ronald Reagan And Mikhail Gorbachev Meet In Iceland

With its Blue Lagoon thermal spa and unrivaled views of the Northern Lights, Iceland is one of the world's top tourist destinations, drawing over 2 million visitors last year alone.