In the 1950s Avro Canada developed the VZ-9AV Avrocar. It was an attempt to create a craft that could take off and land vertically . The project was eventually taken over by the US military.

The history of US nuclear testing is full of bad ideas, and among them is undoubtedly five US military men standing at ground zero during an atmospheric test in the late 1950s.

In reality, there have been very few safety issues with nuclear power since it first came into use in the 1950s. Some countries have embraced nuclear power, such as France , which produces 70% of ...

An F-22 downed a Chinese spy balloon on Saturday with a single AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. But the Pentagon wasn't sure if the missile would work when the pilot fired it, a top commander said.

The rate of sexual assaults in US military academies “significantly decreased” in 2024, a new Pentagon report released on Thursday said, down from the highest rate ever recorded in 2022. But ...

Only 43 of the more than 8,000 US service members who were discharged from the military for refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 have sought to rejoin eight months after the vaccine mandate ...

As part of a bioweapon experiment, Serratia marcescens (pictured on an agar plate above) was released in San Francisco back in 1950. Nathan Reading/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The bacterium Serratia ...

Bulova is passing down its rich history through the MIL-SHIPS watch. The post Bulova’s new MIL-SHIPS watch revives a 1950s ...

Ex-porn star Mia Khalifa mocked US military service members, hoping that they would get PTSD in a video she posted on her X account. Getty Images “Let’s see how much the VA cares about you.

A small village of 1950s American-style homes offers a taste of Western food and shopping outside a former U.S. military base just north of Tokyo. Johnson Town sprang up as post-World War II ...

Air Force veteran Jeri Dilno realized she was a lesbian at a young age. For StoryCorps, she discussed the risk she took joining the military in the late 1950s.