15 Real Attempts to Build a Teleporter

15 Real Attempts to Build a Teleporter In nineteen fifty-three, inside a classified Soviet research facility, a program began whose documentation the Federation of American Scientists would later catalogue as one of the strangest artifacts of Cold War science. The program's internal records, recovered by Western intelligence analysts in the nineteen nineties, described a device intended to transfer matter from one location to another without that matter traveling through the intervening space. Not a weapons program, a transportation research program. That distinction matters. The Soviet state was not trying to build a better bomb. It was trying to build a corridor through space itself, and it believed the corridor was achievable.