How the Nobel Peace Award Began, Who Nominates & How the Winner is Chosen
A History of the Nobel Peace Prize & Its Winners There were a record number of nominees for 2009’s Nobel Peace Prize. Find out how...
Inventions and Inventors
A History of the Nobel Peace Prize & Its Winners There were a record number of nominees for 2009’s Nobel Peace Prize. Find out how...
Western Conflicts that Produced New Weapons and Battle Tactics The Hundred Years’ War, Thirty Years’ War, and the two world wars demonstrate how military revolutions...
Nuclear weapons forever changed the nature of war, and the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union dominated international relations during the...
The development, test, and use of the first atomic bomb by the United States during World War II. Invention of The Atomic Bomb. Alamogordo & the Road to...
In 1945, America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan killing as many as 220,000 people. But how did the US come to have such destructive...
The Atomic Bomb and its Beginnings Powerful Invention and Deadly Weapon. Tracing the process that transpired in the invention of the Atomic Bomb, the “Project Manhattan.” Many...
Alfred Nobel: Biography and Legacy. Inventor of Dynamite and Creator of the Nobel Prize. The renowned chemist, businessman, and inventor gave the world its most prestigious...
Stephanie Kwolek, Inventor of Kevlar®. Fibers Stronger than Steel used in Bulletproof Vests. As a scientist at DuPont, Kwolek stumbled upon the right mixture and created a...
The Madsen Machinegun. The First Light Machinegun Still Lives. Designed in 1896 in Denmark, the Madsen Light Machinegun has served dozens of countries in more than a...
Since the Second World War, strategic bomber aircraft strike terror and among civilian populations because of their destructive power. Bomber Aircraft are warplanes designed to...