PROJECT FILES: Declassified Designs. Defunct Dreams.

Welcome to the archives of the American future that never arrived.

PROJECT FILES is where we pull back the curtain on the most audacious, bizarre, and often classified mega-projects of the Cold War era. We don't just recount history; we open the dossiers that reveal the astonishing technological ambition and ultimate failures of the 20th century.

We investigate the grand schemes—from using nuclear bombs to dig canals (Project Plowshare) to designing starships powered by atomic blasts (Project Orion). Every file is a deep dive into the projects that could have reshaped our world, but were scrapped due to politics, physics, or sheer madness.

If you ever wondered why we don't have flying cars or cities run by monorails, this is your clearance level.

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