#Cold War

Stories tagged “Cold War” in the Weird Science History archive — 13 stories connected by this topic.

• The 480 Million Copper Needles America Scattered Around Earth to Build a Radio Ring
• The Nuclear Watchdog Satellites That Caught the Universe Exploding Instead
• The 3,000 Letters the Post Office Fired at Florida Inside a Cruise Missile
• The Nuclear Landmine Britain Planned to Keep Warm With Live Chickens
• The Plan to Set Off a Nuclear Bomb on the Moon So Everyone Could Watch
• Acoustic Kitty: The CIA Wired a Live Cat for Sound to Spy on the Soviets
• The Flying Saucer the Air Force Built That Maxed Out at 35 MPH
• The Million-Dollar Space Pen Myth — and the $128.89 Pencils NASA Actually Bought
• Laika: The Moscow Stray Who Orbited Earth, and the Truth Hidden for 45 Years
• Polywater: The New Form of Water That Almost Ate the World
• The Airplane That Carried a Nuclear Reactor
• The Rocket That Exploded on Live TV and Got Called 'Kaputnik'
• The Spaceship That Was Supposed to Ride Atomic Bombs to Saturn

Related topics: #declassified #atomic age #space race #accidental discovery #cats #impossible inventions #invention #Moon