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Lockheed D-21: The Drone Version of the SR-71
SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Execution: Finding An Ethical Way to Kill
The Davy Crockett: America's Tactical Nuclear Weapon
The Hanford Site: Powering the Manhattan Project
Bathyscaphe Triest: The Quest to Actually Dive 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
ICBMs: Enabling the End of the World
Operation Black Buck: The UK's Mega Bombing Runs in the Falklands War
The World Trade Centre: The Tragic Story of New York's Twin Towers
The Arecibo Telescope: Puerto Rico's Iconic Instrument (That Didn't Survive 2020)
SOSUS: Spying on Soviet Submarines
Skunk Works: The Dream Factory for War
The Golden Gate: San Francisco's Iconic Bridge
Drilling for Climatology: Antarctica's Deep Bore Ice Cores
Chichen Itza: Mexico's Mayan Wonder
The Establishment of Jamestown: Staving Off Death in England's First Permanent American Settlement
The Boeing Everett Factory: The Biggest Building in the World (By Far)
The B-29: America's Flying Superfortress
The AK-47: The Most Reliable Killing Machine in Modern History
The Space Shuttle: NASA's Astronaut Pod
The SS United States: A Throwback Ocean Liner That Refuses to Die
The DB Cooper Case: The Only Successful Skyjacking in U S History
Railguns: The Kinetic Future of Warfare
Hadrian’s Wall: The Mysterious 38th Parallel for Roman Legionaries and British Barbarians
Airbus A300: The European Jet That Challenged Boeing's Air Supremacy
The James Bay Project: Three Gorges Dam of the West
The V-3 Cannon: Hitler's Unfinished Mega-Gun
SR-72: The Son of Blackbird
The Seawise Giant: The Middle Eastern Oil Tanker That Refused to Die
The Paris Gun: Germany's Infamous Artillery Weapon from World War I
Apollo 13: Houston, We Have a Problem
The New Coastal Road: Building a Highway Around an Island
The US Capitol: America's Legislative Center
The V-1 Flying Bomb: The Nazi Cruise Missile
The Ho Chi Minh Trail: How the Vietnam War was Won
The Lewis and Clark Expedition: How the USA Discovered Its Eventual Western Borders
The Human Genome Project: The 13-Year Quest to Chart the Mysteries of Human Genetics
The Symphony of the Seas: The World's Largest Cruise Ship
The T-35: The Soviet Union's Land Based Battleship
Russia's Road of Bones: The Eastern Highway That's Literally Built on Corpses
Zumwalt Destroyers: Three Next-Generation US Stealth Ships (That Kind of Look Like Ironclads)
The Stargate Project: When the CIA Dabbled with the Psychic
The Nazi Sun Gun: Remembering That Time When Hitler Wanted a Death Star
The Enigma Machine: The Totally, Definitely, Absolutely Unbreakable Sequence of German War Codes
The Forbidden City: The Magnificent Imperial Palaces of Dynastic China
The V-2 Rocket: How Nazi Germany Created The World's First Guided Ballistic Missile
The US Interstate System: More than 40,000 Miles of Open Road
Soviet TU-160: The Supersonic "White Swan" of Russian Aircraft
Seawolf Class Submarine: Hunting the Soviet Typhoon
The Death Rail: The Siam-Burma Railway Route That Was Built By Japanese Prisoners in World War II
Voyager 1: The Furthest Man-Made Object From Earth
The Tsar Bomba: Building the World's Biggest Nuke
The Harrier Jump Jet: How Cold War Anxiety Inspired a Vertical Takeoff
Walls of Constantinople: The Last Great Ancient Fortification
Operation Bodyguard: The Absolutely Crazy (And Successful) Plan to Fool Hitler Before D-Day
Boeing X-37: America's Secret Space Plane
The Event Horizon Telescopes: Taking a Picture of a Black Hole
Westminster Palace: One Thousand Years of History
The Snowy Mountains Scheme: Bringing More Water to Australia from On High
Amundsen vs Scott: The Race to the South Pole
The Colt Single Action Army Revolver: The Gun that Won the West
The Syracusia: Archimedes' Massive Sailing Ship
The Suez Canal: The Desert Ditch Ferrying 1 Billion Tons of Goods Every Year (When It's Not Blocked)
USS Nautilus: The First Nuclear Powered Submarine
NASA's Crawler Transporter: How Does the US Spaceship Get Set Up Before Blastoff?
Lockheed AC-130: The Angel of Death
The Louvre: The Largest Art Museum in the World
The German Autobahn System: The Benefits of Unlimited Speed
The London Underground: How 'The Tube' Became the First Modern Subway System
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter: The Flying Coffin
Australia's Highway 1: The Longest National Highway in the World
The James Webb Space Telescope: Evolving Hubble for the 21st Century
Char 2C: The Largest (Operational) Tank Ever Made
Acoustic Kitty: The CIA's Plan to Spy... with Cats
Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar: The Spaceplane With a Silly Name
Hunting Nazis: How Israel Captured Adolf Eichmann
New York's Subway System: The Most Expensive Railway Ever Constructed
Essex Class Aircraft Carriers: Revolutionizing Modern Warfare
The Hong Kong Express Rail Link: The Most Expensive Infrastructure in Hong Kong's History
The MQ-8 Fire Scout: America's Unmanned Robot Helicopter
Perseverance: NASA's 2020 Mission to Mars
The YAK-41: The Soviet Attempt at a VTOL Aircraft
Africa's Great Green Wall: Stopping the Spread of the Sahara
Hypersonic Aircraft: Breaking Mach-5 With Next-Generation Jets
The Atlantic Wall: The Nazi Defence of Europe
Black Gold: The Rapid Rise of Saudi Arabia
The White Sea–Baltic Canal: Stalin's Western Industrial Project That Cost 250,000 Lives
The F-35 Lightning: Jack of All Trades, or Master of None?
The Wright Flyer: The Spectacular Birth of Modern Flight (That Many People Believed Was Fake)
The Buran: The Soviet Union's Suspiciously Familiar-Looking Space Shuttle
The British Empire: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Details of The World's Largest Empire
The Parker Solar Probe: Firing Sensors into the Sun
Making Maps: The Story of the UK's Ordnance Survey
The Antonine Wall: The Other Great Roman Wall
The Lockheed Have Blue: First in Stealth
The Satan-2: Vladimir Putin's Hypersonic Nuke
Building Dubai: The City in the Desert
The Øresund Bridge: Connecting Sweden and Denmark
After 9/11: Rebuilding After America's Worst Terrorist Attack
Sputnik I: How the First Soviet Artificial Satellite Caused an American Panic
The Long March: The 9,000 Kilometer Retreat that Led to Mao's Communist Victory
The Thames Tunnel: The World's First Underwater Passage
Kansai Floating Airport: Japan's Popular Aquatic Airport (That's Sinking into Osaka Bay)
The Iron Dome: Israel's Ultimate Missile Defence
Building Britain's Canals: How the UK Powered Up for the Pre-Railroad Industrial Revolution
I-400: The Japanese Submarine... That Was Also An Aircraft Carrier
The Rolls Royce Merlin: Powering History's Most Famous Fighters
The Kremlin: The Fortress Behind Russian Power
Angkor Wat: Cambodia's Magnificent City of Temples
The Tu-95: Dropping Russian Bombs for 100 Years
Prelude FLNG: The Largest Offshore Facility Ever Created
Eradicating Smallpox: The Horrific Disease We Destroyed
The Akron and Makon Airships: That Time the USA Decided they Wanted a Hindenburg…
The Battleship Bismarck: Challenging British Naval Supremacy with a Super-Armoured Ship
Yuri Gagarin and The First Human Mission Into Space.... Or Was It?
The Great Mosque of Mecca: The Largest (And Holiest) Mosque in the World
Wascally Wabbits: The Rabbit-Proof Fence That's Sealing Off Australia
Formula 1: A Short History of the Pinnacle of Racing
Mir Space Station: The Original Space Habitat
Falcon 9: SpaceX's Reusable Rocket
B-47 Stratojet: A Danger to Enemies, a Danger to Fly
The Black Dragon M1 Howitzer: The WWII Superheavy Artillery That's Still Relevant in Taiwan
The Temple of Artemis: The Great Wonder of Ephesus (That Kept Getting Destroyed)
Churchill Falls: Canada's Incredible Underground Power Station of the 1960s
HMS Vanguard: The Royal Navy's Largest Battleship
Reunification: Re-Absorbing East Germany After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Nord Stream: The Longest Sub-Sea Pipeline in the World
GPS: How Satellites Revolutionized Our Mastery of Geography
Operation Downfall: The Allies' Plan for an Invasion of Japan
The Presidential Compound: Turkey's Insane Presidential House
Millau Viaduct: The World's Tallest Bridge
Saturation Diving: The Incredible World of Underwater Construction
Northrop YF-23: The Grey Ghost
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy: Moving the US Military
The Forth Bridge: An Incredible 19th Century Achievement
Sky City: The Skyscraper China Tried (and Failed) to Build in 90 Days
RMS Olympic: The Titanic That Didn't Sink (Right Away)
The Iron Curtain: The Cold War's Deadly Line of Demarcation
