We often romanticize the Middle Ages, seeing them as a time of chivalry, gallant knights, and castles. Beneath all of this ...

History is filled with wars, that’s just a natural part of the human condition. It is in the annals of history that we find the deadliest weapon ever fielded. However, the answer to what that weapon ...

The legacy of the Star Wars lightsaber proves why it still stands above every other sci-fi movie weapon.

History isn’t short on creative ways to ruin other people’s lives. Long before drones or guided munitions, opium addicted inventors across continents were thinking, “But what if our weapons also spun, ...

To determine the age, origin or authenticity of a weapon. As weapons have evolved, changes in materials, technologies, and styles have provided unintentional clues to help today’s experts deduce the ...

From car keys to glasses to rifles, everyone misplaces something important from time to time. But when you’re the U.S. government, sometimes that important thing is a superweapon that is designed to ...

The term “Franken weapon” evokes an image of weird armaments—something unnatural and even satirical, as if the Battle of the Bulge met the eponymous monster of the famous novel. But these odd weapons ...

Sometimes we like to think the idiom that bigger is better applies to nearly anything. In reality, this is rarely the case, and perhaps the best example of where bigger is not necessarily better is in ...