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Inside the CIA lie detector
US federal agencies have been holding lie detectors since the 1950s to reassure public opinion that they can unmask the agents.
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Inside China's huge nuclear tunnel since the Cold War
Let's visit the world's largest tunnel system, can withstand thousands of tons of explosives or a powerful earthquake of level 8, can even withstand atomic bombs and hyd…
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History of building pentagonal headquarters of the US Department of Defense
Although not built on a 5-sided plot of land as originally planned, the US Department of Defense headquarters still has a pentagonal design to shorten the travel distanc…
Environment
The threat from the US nuclear waste warehouse left the Arctic ice
By the end of the century, ice on Greenland would melt, revealing toxic nuclear waste from the secret US military base during the Cold War.
Environment
Climate change warms up the
The race to strengthen influence in the Arctic between some powers is becoming more and more intense in the context of the world still not having a common voice in the f…
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Inside the shelter of volunteers warning the British nucleus
The shelter was still intact since the Cold War in East Anglia, and he revealed the life of the volunteer army to monitor the airspace to warn the nuclear attack.
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Understand the implications with the Cold War telescope
The prospect of the Cold War glass in England was originally aimed at tracking ballistic missiles. Now it also adds to the discovery of young
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In 1983, mankind stood close to the brink of nuclear war, but this determined man stopped it
Petrov's decision was made when the whole world was tense like a string under the weight of the Cold War.