What was operation blue peacock?

This lightweight General Service Mk V device could immobilise Hitler’s heavy tanks and was used during fighting in Northwest Europe

China’s rising status as a nuclear power should keep Russia and its threats to use weapons of mass destruction in check, experts tell Newsweek

SOUTHEASTERN IRAQ 26-27 FEBRUARY 1991

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

Q What is the coldest winter the UK has experienced? A In more recent times the Met Office points to the winter of 1963, which was the coldest since 1740, with temperatures dropping to as low as -20°C

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