After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space programs—including some who had been active in the Third Reich. The first U.S ...

Operation Paperclip was a secret U.S. program launched at the end of World War II to bring German scientists, engineers, and technicians - many with ties to the Nazi regime - into America’s military ...

As World War II drew to a close, the Allies were eager to get their hands on one of the most technologically amazing yet terrifying weapons in Nazi Germany’s armamentarium: the V-2 rocket. A ...

As World War II drew to a close, Soviet and Western officials raced to scoop up Nazi rockets and Nazi rocket scientists. In May 1946, the Soviet Union created a new rocket test range outside Moscow, ...