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Sviatoslav Yurash, a Ukrainian MP and a former advisor to the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, told the BBC that he had “an AK-47 in front of [him],” ready to fight the Russian army. “We are ...

The compact automatic rifle that Stalin's engineers unveiled in 1947 didn't look like much of a gun. The result of a secret design contest, its components were simple, inelegant, workmanlike. Its ...

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 ...

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 ...