Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...

Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn't a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...

Key Point: During just one day in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme the British lost 21,000 men – many of them killed by Spandau machine guns, the German version of the Maxim. World War I is often ...