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Military

A nuclear training exercise at Volk air base (Credit: Alamy)
Nuclear

The mistakes that nearly caused WW3

By Zaria Gorvett

Soviet soldiers participate in a military exercise in the early 1980s (Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
The war game that almost caused WWIII
By Richard Hollingham
A MiG-15 at an air show (Credit: Alamy)
Military
MiG: The USSR's most feared warplanes
Future
Elizebeth Friedman (Credit: SPL)
In Depth
The untold tales of code-breaking women
By Chris Baraniuk
(Credit: Alamy)
Military
Inside a secret wind tunnel
Future
Volunteers have recreated what one train coming up the tunnel would have looked like here (Credit: Amanda Ruggeri)
Military
The UK’s hidden underground ‘fortress’
By Amanda Ruggeri
As part of the scenario training, role-playing instructors fire blanks from firearms to simulate a possible emergency situation (Credit: Chris Baraniuk)
In Depth
Who guards nuclear plants from attacks?
By Chris Baraniuk
Nestled in the foothills of the Cairngorms, Drumintoul Lodge seems a surprising location for a World War Two commando school (Credit: Alamy)
Military
The Scottish school for secret agents
By Amanda Ruggeri
(Credit: William Park)
Military
The secret ‘shadow factories’ of WWII
By William Park
One of the 15,000 Nazi bunkers built from the Spanish border to northern Norway - an extensive line of coastal defences known as the 'Atlantikwall' (Credit: Jason Guilbeau)
Military
The surprising beauty of WWII bunkers
By Olivia Howitt / Images by Jason Guilbeau
(Credit: Science Museum/SSPL)
Medicine
How a bloody war eventually saved lives
By Amanda Ruggeri
(Credit: Kiyoshi Takahase Segundo/Alamy)
Military
The case for looking for UFOs
By Nick Pope
Saddam Hussein was the Iraqi defence secretary when he first contacted Bull (Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
The tragic tale of Saddam's 'supergun'
By William Park
(Credit: BBCW)
Future Video
The ‘alien’ forts off Britain's coast
Future
Although the wreck is surrounded by an exclusion zone, there are concerns that it’s not as well protected as the authorities claim (Chris Laurens/Alamy Stock Photo)
Military
The bombs lurking off the UK coast
By Jon Excell
The Bermondsey bomb was destroyed by the British army at Cliffe in Kent (Credit: MOD)
Military
The Nazi bombs that can still kill
By Jon Excell
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