College Kid Designs An Atomic Bomb In Dorm Room

A then 21-year-old John Aristotle Phillips, a junior at Princeton designed a functional atomic bomb(as you do) at a fraction of the cost of existing ones in 1976. The FBI paid him a visit of course.

Breaking: Trump announces US withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced America’s formal withdrawal from an international deal established with Iran intended to curb the aggressive nation’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. Trump said, The United States no longer makes empty threats. When I make promises, I keep them … In a few moments, I will sign a presidential memorandum to […]

Jonathan Wainwright, Hero of Corregidor, Rescued By OSS August 1945

When President Roosevelt ordered General Douglas MacArthur to Australia to take over command of the Allies South West Pacific Area on March 12, 1942, Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright inherited command of the US and Filipino forces on the Philippines. After the surrender of the American and Filipino forces in the Philippines in May of 1942, […]

U.S.S. Indianapolis, A Terrible and Needless Tragedy

On July 30, 1945, in the closing days of World War II, the cruiser Indianapolis (CA-35), unescorted in the Pacific Ocean, was steaming for Leyte, having left Guam after just delivering the components for the atomic bomb to Tinian. The Indianapolis’ orders were to rendezvous with the battleship U.S.S. Idaho (BB-42), in the Leyte Gulf […]