When Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969, its rocket scientists were named American heroes. But just years earlier, more than one had been our enemy. In the 1940s, some of these celebrated U.S.

Annie Jacobsen’s new book is called Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. It isn’t terribly secret anymore, of course, and it was never very ...

As the prospects for Germany during the Second World War began to look increasingly grim, the Nazi war machine largely pinned their hopes on a number of high-tech “superweapons” they had in ...

In the final months of World War II, the United States undertook an enormous effort to attract Nazi scientists to the U.S. Writer Annie Jacobsen's... The Secret Operation To Bring Nazi Scientists To ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: While the immense German investment in military capabilities drove some innovation, it also drew funding away from basic research and civilian applications. Before the ...