Twenty-six years ago a tall, stooping man in a maroon beret and a powerfully-built figure with hooded eyes in green ...

Born in secrecy, the U-2 spy plane gave the U.S. eyes deep inside enemy territory. Its creation marked a turning point in Cold War espionage and global power ...

Check out the 'Cold War Gone Hot' Gameplay Trailer for '83, a Cold War era first-person tactical shooter developed by Blue ...

Eighty years after Hiroshima, the idea that nuclear war can be controlled is making a comeback.

This “super-cartel” won’t just be a criminal syndicate trafficking migrants and drugs: It will operate more like a rogue state.

IN THE DEPTHS of the cold war, American spooks and generals came to suspect that the nuclear-weapons club was about to gain an incongruous new member. That state was Sweden, a neutral power that ...

The bomb hasn’t been used since, apart from test blasts, and after the Cold War ended in 1991, the risk of nuclear war mercifully declined. Now the risk is back on the rise, as an alarming new ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter the public consciousness again.

In 2021 Russia had vast stockpiles of Cold War era armored vehicles, artillery and munitions. Since the war began in early 2022, Russia has lost over 14,000 tanks and other armored vehicles. Russia ...

In the shadow of Point Sur Lighthouse along California's Big Sur Coast, the Point Sur Naval Facility, once one of the world’s most secretive sites, played a pivotal role in Cold War espionage.

China is reviving an ekranoplan design dubbed the "Bohai Sea Monster," echoing the Soviet "Caspian Sea Monster", a vessel that skims the sea at jet-like speeds. Meanwhile, the U.S. has ...

Technology Why bizarre Cold War hoverboats are making a comeback Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment.