Trench Art

3 weeks ago | daxe.substack.com | David Axe

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4 weeks ago | daxe.substack.com | David Axe

by STEVE WEINTZIn the spring of 1952, the U.S. government tested tactical nuclear weapons at the Nevada Proving Ground as part of Operation Tumbler-Snapper. It was the third nuke test series in 18 months at the Nevada site in an era of breakneck atomic development. At 4:00 in the morning on May 13, one of the Tumbler-Snapper bombs—code name “Fox”—was scheduled to go off. But the moment passed … and no atomic fireball curled into the sky. Shot Fox had misfired.

1 month ago | daxe.substack.com | David Axe

The city of Shostka, in northern Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast, is just 25 miles from the border with Russia. That places it within range of every heavy deep-strike munition in the Russian inventory. So it was foolish, if not criminal, when a Ukrainian national guard commander gathered their trainees out in the open, in broad daylight, at a shooting range in Shostka on Tuesday. A Russian drone spotted the trainees. A Russian Iskander ballistic missile streaked down. Six trainees died and 10 were injured.