Curious Droid

“Hotter than the Sun” is one of those phrases we reach for when we have run out of ways to describe something extreme.

Sometime in 1988, at a test range called Kapustin Yar deep inside the Soviet Union, a team of engineers took the most powerful weapon their country had ever built, packed it with the better part of a ton of high explosive, and blew it to pieces.

For as long as humans have looked up, the Moon has refused to be just one thing.

Over the decades antigravity has been the stuff of science fiction, but with the recent government releases of video showing UAPs doing things they we can’t explain and even congressional meetings on the subject, one of the fundamental features of these c…

If you put the B-52 and the B-1B side by side, they look like aircraft from two different eras of strategic thinking.

Although I’ve covered quite a few nuclear technologies over past few years there is one which I haven’t touched upon but he’s regarded as one of the most insidious forms of nuclear weapon, One which was parodied by the mad magazine with the slogan “save b…

How do you stop a nuclear armed opponent with better, more accurate weapons from launching a first strike that would decapitate the command structure of your country before you had a chance to launch your weapons in retaliation.

Have you ever wondered how a nuclear missile can find its way half way across the world and to be within less than 100 meters of it’s target and not use GPS?.

It’s not the fastest, it hasn’t got the biggest payload and its now 49 years since the prototypes first flew, but in a world of hypersonics and AI, the Tomahawk cruise missile is still a weapon that keeps leaders of countries that might be on the receiving

When we think of a nuclear weapon, the image that comes to mind is the vast mushroom clouds of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, or the Cold War tests in the Pacific and Russia.