Strange weapons
The American plan to drop bomb-carrying bats
An outlandish proposal became a real weapons program.
History Iguana
The past is stranger
than you remember.
Stories, people, and turning points—followed far enough to reveal the connections.
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Stories worth following
Naval history
Bismarck’s eight-day voyage
A battleship, an ocean-wide pursuit, and one disabling torpedo.
The Space Age
The first machine to reach another world
Luna 2 was built to cross the void and strike the Moon.
Napoleonic Wars
Napoleon entered Moscow—and found no victory
The city was empty, peace never came, and fires were spreading.
Strange weapons
The submarine designed to bomb from across an ocean
A secret hangar made the I-400 unlike anything afloat.
Battles
Four minutes at Midway changed the Pacific War
Dive bombers arrived over Japan’s carriers at the worst possible moment.
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