By 1860, the US was no longer officially involved in the international slave trade. That same year, an illegal slave ship, Clotilde, arrived in Mobile, Alabama, carrying the last slaves to be brought to America, from Africa. In 2018, editor Deborah Plant published a forgotten book by acclaimed African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston. It told the true story of the Clotilde.
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,1,Operation Desert Rock was the codename for a series of military tests in the 1950s aimed at understanding the effects of atomic radiation on ground troops. In total, over 50,000 U.S. soldiers were exposed to 69 radioactive blasts.
From the Series: Atomic Age Declassified: Filming the Bomb http://bit.ly/2Fzfabc
,1,The F-117 Nighthawk is the ultimate stealth fighter, virtually undetectable to radar. But on a bombing raid over Belgrade in 1999, Colonel Dale Zelko is shocked to see two missiles locked in on his plane.
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,1,It's September 11, 2001, and AA Flight 77 has just vanished off the radar. As news starts pouring in of an attack on the World Trade Center, concerned air traffic controllers begin to suspect the worst.
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,1,To test the impact of an atomic blast on populated areas, technicians built entire fake towns, with houses, shops, and even mannequin families. These settlements went by an ominous name: doom towns.
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,1,Recent hints that Lockheed Martinβs Skunk Works division may have already delivered an advanced new spy plane to the United States Air Force have prompted a resurgence in speculation about a secretive aircraft known to many as the SR-72.
This program was once not only publicly disclosed, but being developed under sporadic bouts of media attention and general fanfare, that is, until March of 2018 when the effort suddenly fell silent... At least, almost silent.
Here's the true and untold story of Lockheed Martin's legendary hypersonic spy plane, the SR-72.
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,1,By 1860, the US was no longer officially involved in the international slave trade. That same year, an illegal slave ship, Clotilde, arrived in Mobile, Alabama, carrying the last slaves to be brought to America, from Africa. In 2018, editor Deborah Plant published a forgotten book by acclaimed African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston. It told the true story of the Clotilde.
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