World’s Most Dangerous Border The bitter wind tore through my parka, as I stood less than 25 feet away from an armed North Korean soldier.  I shivered again, but this time in reflection of where I stood.  Sharply uniformed North and South Korean soldiers were patrolling with weapons by their side.  I was in the DMZ, the demilitarized zone that bisects North and South Korea.  Former President Bill Clinton, described it as the “the scariest place on Earth” with over 1,000,000 hostile soldiers facing off.  Ironically, despite the name, the […]

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The Russian Woodpecker was so powerful it globally disrupted TV and radio broadcasts, commercial aviation communications, and even utility transmissions. The Woodpecker’s official name is Duga, it is a humongous, over-the-horizon radar that the Soviets utilized to detect nuclear ballistic launches in the US. This power-hungry Duga was located in the shadow of the doomed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in present day Ukraine. During the Soviet days the super-secret Duga was listed as a children’s camp on maps. Duga, which means arc in Russian, utilized frequencies reserved for civilian communications. […]

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