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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf is reportedly considered the worse oil spill in history. The disaster killed 11 workers in the initial explosion and continued to dump 170 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a period of 3 months before the flow of oil could be stopped. 1,000 [...]

The ICBM changed world history. Being able to launch missiles from submerged submarines re-wrote the texts on warfare. Nuclear powered submarines could remain underwater, almost invisible o the enemy and launch nuclear missiles at targets thousands of miles away. The East and West faced off underwater, on the alert, waiting for the dreaded command to [...]