china US Navy resurrects dumb weapons project for dumb Trump ship project Séamus Bellamy

DRONES Former military contractor found guilty of stealing U.S. Navy drone secrets Séamus Bellamy

History The dentist who convinced FDR to bomb Japan with bats Gail Sherman

Weird In 1971 two campers recorded what a Navy linguist calls a nonhuman language in the Sierra Nevadas Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1942 Los Angeles fired 1,440 anti-aircraft rounds at nothing Ellsworth Toohey

History A mountain man spent 25 years eating the livers of the people who killed his wife Ellsworth Toohey

History An expedition spent years looking for an Arctic island that didn't exist Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1888, a French adventurer convinced Vietnamese tribes to crown him king Ellsworth Toohey

aviation A Navy blimp landed in San Francisco with its engines running and its crew gone Ellsworth Toohey

conspiracy theories He hired the world's best debunker to talk him out of UFOs, and it backfired Ellsworth Toohey

law CIA officer stashed 308 gold bars and $2m cash at home Rob Beschizza

books New biography captures Doonesbury's 50-year sweep of American life Ruben Bolling

marine biology Workers opened a whale in 1937 and found something inside that still doesn't have a name Ellsworth Toohey

News Two Navy jets collide at Idaho air show, all four crew eject safely Popkin

war US and Iran practicing an "Israeli ceasefire," by shooting at one another Jason Weisberger

politics Iran war has cost $25bn so far, admits Pentagon. The real cost is closer to $50bn. Rob Beschizza

gadgets Does your app fit on a floppy? Rob Beschizza

Same old song and dance Trump returns to his reality TV roots. Who gets fired next? Jason Weisberger

winning 1949: Unable to resist the irony, Britain defeats Napoleon one more time Jason Weisberger

War games, wild comeback: the bird saved by a target range Jason Weisberger