The Bell D-188, a vertical takeoff fighter jet with eight engines, was an ambitious yet impractical marvel of Cold War aviation. Designed to operate from small bases and carry a range of weapons, its ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

Bell's president Mervin Kelly was behind the ... Among the most likely customers was the US military. As the cold war got underway, military agencies invested lavish funding into any kind of ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...