On July 4th, 1976, as Americans celebrated the country’s bicentennial with beer and bottle rockets, a strong signal began disrupting shortwave, maritime, aeronautical, and telecommunications signals ...

On July 4th, 1976, as Americans celebrated the country’s bicentennial with beer and bottle rockets, a strong signal began disrupting shortwave, maritime, aeronautical, and telecommunications signals ...

In 1976, radio operators across the world began hearing a strange, relentless tapping—dubbed the “Russian Woodpecker.” What sounded like an electronic pulse was actually the signal of a massive Soviet ...