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Remember as a kid when you'd play 'rock, paper, scissors' and then some Smart aleck would end the game by throwing a 'nuclear bomb!'? Well that's what the US Army did with the M65 artillery piece—better known as "Atomic Annie".

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A decommissioned Cold War-era missile silo, located in the Adirondock Mountains of upstate New York, recently hit the market for $750,000. The home is buried in and surrounded by 8.3 acres of fenced in land, and the inside has, of course, been renovated for modern living, according to Realtor Brian Dominic of Select Sotheby’s International Realty. Forty feet […]

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There's a reason why the CZ-75 is one of the most common designs in the world and it isn't just the patent controversy. Not much good came out of the Cold War, but the CZ-75 pistol is a shining exception.

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The Cold War nurtured some iconic firearms, the AK47, FN FAL, and the M16 just to name a few of the biggies, but rarely does this era's favorite SMG, the Sterling submachine gun, find its way onto the shortlist.

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At the outbreak of the Vietnam war, US Army infantrymen and USMC marines shouldered firearms far different from the ones carried by their counterparts fifty years earlier but many that set the stage for the guns carried today.

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Sick and tired of snooty, luxury car drivers parking in his city's bicycle lanes, Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius in Lithuania, takes care of the problem with a tank.

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After breaking away from the crumbling shell of the Soviet Union in 1990, a newly independent and economically strapped Lithuania reclaimed their lost independence with a few ugly but effective homegrown firearms.

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