The Cold war was a time of espionage between the CIA and KGB and other organisations. Technology played a key role in an agent's inventory, gadgets were well disguised and portable some were even ...

These gadgets were used to great effect in many theatres of war. For instance, one of the most successful SOE operations of the war was Jaywick. This resulted in 30,000 tons of Japanese shipping ...

While Congo has vast reserves, poverty and war mean most of the mining and processing is done by hand, so production is slow. The country produced 5 percent of the world’s tin supply in 2008 ...