A Mach 3 US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Buzzed Sacramento’s Control Tower in Afterburner. The Tower Wanted More
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird might have been the greatest plane ever designed for the United States Armed Forces…
USS Long Beach: 2 Nuclear Reactors, 80,000 Horsepower, Unlimited Range, and Stacked with Missiles. The US Navy Does Not Operate a Single Nuclear Cruiser Today.
Summary and Key Points: USS Long Beach proved a nuclear-powered cruiser could work, and that turned out not…
A secret Cold War test on San Francisco exposed millions to bacteria
Three days before Christmas 1976, Edward Nevin III was standing on a BART platform, newspaper in hand, waiting…
Artist examines local now-defunct nuclear missile sites in ‘A Boundary Meant to Separate’
Los Angeles-based artist Aryana Polat grew up in the San Fernando Valley. The young creative was invested in…
USS Long Beach Was The Powerhouse Nuclear Cruiser The U.S. Navy Never Repeated
The remaining hull of ex-USS Long Beach (CGN-9) sits at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility,…
The U.S. Navy Had a ‘Trump-Class Battleship’ 60 Years Ago: USS Long Beach As A Massive Nuclear Cruiser Built to Fight Russia
The U.S. Navy is reviving the concept of a nuclear-powered surface combatant outside aircraft carriers for the future…
The U.S. and Europe have been at odds before over the years: A timeline
The dispute between the United States and Europe over the future of Greenland, which has escalated with President…