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Former Cold War missile facility converted into Airbnb

March 29, 2021
3 mins read

The facility at Titan Ranch in Vilonia, Arkansas, was one of 18 such underground sites built in the state as part of

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Back to the Drawing Board/Modern

Back to the Drawing Board: the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

June 16, 2020
4 mins read
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It was a futuristic-looking aircraft, which Lockheed publicised as ‘a missile with a man in it’.

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Books

REVIEW – The Elite: the story of special forces – from Ancient Sparta to the War on Terror

April 2, 2020
7 mins read

Fiennes had picked his moment well. Ever since the dramatic Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980, the press, and to some degree the

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Back to the Drawing Board

Back to the Drawing Board: the T-64 Tank

March 30, 2020
4 mins read

Although its ‘high-tech’ features, such as an auto-loader for the main armament and its ultra-compact multi-fuel engine, were superficially impressive, they proved

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Behind The Image/Modern

BEHIND THE IMAGE: B-52 storage area, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona

February 20, 2020
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The boneyard here at Davis-Monthan was established in 1946 to store WWII bombers and transports.

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Back to the Drawing Board: the Davy Crockett ‘Tactical’ Nuke

January 20, 2020
4 mins read
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In the 1950s, the Cold War was at its height. To many, it seemed to be a question of when, rather than

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Cover Feature/Modern

The Cuban Revolution

January 10, 2019
4 mins read

The Cuban Revolution of January 1959, the Bay of Pigs Invasion of April 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962

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Feature/Museums

RAF Museum London: into the future

August 13, 2018
12 mins read
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Seema Syeda reviews the newly remodelled RAF Museum. Museums, I thought in a rather prosaic way as I sat underneath the bomb

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