The atomic bomb rested on a tower 100 feet above the ground. Known as RDS-1, it was shaped like a huge metal teardrop with rivets and bolts along its sides. Everything had been prepared. Inside its ...

National armies that use AK-47s, the world’s most popular assault rifle, span the globe. Despite the fact that its presence has almost become commonplace, the weapon has been embraced as a symbol of ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Although the Galil may be out of service today, the rifle helped create what is today a small arms industry all out of proportion to tiny Israel’s size. The 1967 Six ...

On the 24th of December, Mikhail Kalashnikov, a Russian gun designer, died at the ripe old age of 91. The rifle that he invented, the Kalashnikov/AK-47, in 1946, went on to become one of the most ...