world war ii

Millions of tons of discarded chemical munitions lie scattered across every ocean on the planet. Can we disband this pollution ticking time bomb before it explodes?

The country only recently pardoned him for criminal charges of homosexuality, for which he was chemically castrated.

Projecting the evolution of the projectile

Tank killers, nightmares for Hitler, bombed-out volcanoes and more explosive ideas from World War II-era PopSci.

"Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us."

Selected readings on the apocalypse at the end of World War II

The changing face of combat

Plus, the early days of mishandling deadly vials in labs.

Students help recast and preserve the history found in shipwrecks.

"By splitting the atom, man may have united the world."