After the first atomic bomb test in 1945, military engineers imagined tanks that could survive nuclear war. The U.S. TV-8 was ...

Object 279 was a Soviet super heavy tank designed to operate on a nuclear battlefield. Its oval hull and four track ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Object 279 was done in by changes to warfighting doctrine. As the Cold War progressed, American and Soviet planners shifted assumptions about nuclear war. They ...

Key Point: It didn’t make it to the battlefield. Enter the Object 279 tank, a curious oddity from the late 1950s which was obsolete — despite its design principles deliberately reflecting the fear of ...