wwII

It’s fair to say that the last truly ingenious period in warfare was the Big One. During World War II, good guys were good, bad guys were bad and we all wanted to twist science to our advantage. Both the Axis and the Allies had dozens of secret weapons projects percolating – one of ours, the atomic bomb, ended the war – and here are the ten most terrifying secret weapons of World War II. Vortex Cannon Hitler’s Reich was very supportive of scientific research, as long as it led to new ways to kill the Allies. During the war, he had multiple labs working on conceptualizing innovative weapons. The ...