Videos on the history of aerospace technologies and other tech.
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From Curious Droid. Nuclear weapons are thought of as being large and heavy, but even going back to 1950s, weapons designers had created weapons that could be carried in a backpack. But just how small can one of these devices be made and still work? There are stories of lost briefcase nukes after the fall…
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