As we know from history, World War II was (and still is) considered to be one of the most brutal, terrifying and eventful ...

How Operation Paperclip helped fuel the space race In the 1950s and 1960s, the American space program accelerated as the U.S. and Soviet Union vied to put a man on the moon.

Operation Paperclip recruits were merely continuing what they did before the war ended. We can trace much of what the United States knows about supersonic flight technology back to the Nazi ...

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 Nazi German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for ...

Remembering ‘Operation Paperclip,’ when national security trumped ethical concern Mar 31, 2014 8:53 PM EDT By — PBS News Hour Leave a comment Transcript ...

Operation Paperclip brought over 1,600 German scientists to America, many of whom worked on key programs that propelled the U.S. ahead in missile technology and space exploration Tarun Mishra ...

With Operation Paperclip, Jacobsen shows how governmental secrecy and its blinkered morality veiled, for so long, the enormity of Nazi crimes perpetrated by the hundreds of technologists who were ...

There is historical precedent for this idea. In Operation Paperclip immediately after World War II, the United States and its allies evacuated more than 1,500 scientists and engineers from Germany.

In the fall of 1944, the United States and its allies launched a secret mission code-named Operation Paperclip. The aim was to find and preserve German weapons, including biological and chemical ...