Context Immediately after the collapse of the USSR in the fall of 1991, uncertainty reigned among US intelligence services about the attitude of the forces of the former USSR, in particular the strategic missile forces that remained under Russian command. From the United States Navys perspective, t
Koobi Fora , a region of northern paleoanthropological sites Kenya in Proximity of the Turkana Sees (Rudolfsee ). The geological formation of the Koobi Fora consists of lake and river sediments from the eastern shore of Lake Turkana. Good condition hominin fossils from between 2.1 an
The “Iceworm” plan was one of the most ambitious designed by the US during the Cold War. It involved the creation of secret missile launch bases under the ice of Greenland, without the consent of Denmark to which the island belonged. The Americans goal was to develop mobile medium-range ballistic
Edward Pellew, born in Dover in 1757, died in 1833, 1st Viscount of Exmouth, was a British admiral. He distinguished himself in several battles against the French navy in America and in India, became rear-admiral in 1804, vice-admiral in 1808. In 1815 he was given command of the British fleet in th