2.3M views · 24K reactions | "Russia today essentially threatened the United States with World War III with nuclear weapons, and we're talking about something Donald J. Trump was joking about 11 years ago? This country has serious problems, and we need to be focused on that." – Monica Crowley | Sean Hannity | Facebook

After World War II, the United States launched a covert initiative known as Operation Paperclip, designed to recruit German scientists and engineers — many of whom had worked on advanced weapons for the Axis regime. Over 1,600 experts were secretly brought to America, with their wartime records often sanitized to bypass restrictions that would have barred former Axis collaborators. These men included Wernher von Braun, a rocket engineer who had developed the German V-2 missile. Once in the U.S.,