As heat blasts the Southwest, a polar vortex is forecast for the Midwest and East. Snow is expected in the Great Lakes, and an atmospheric river is on tap for Hawaii.

Several Cold War programs pushed engineering and strategic risk to unprecedented levels. This documentary revisits the MBT-70 joint tank project, the Soviet P-270 Moskit “Sunburn” missile, the Davy ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Brazil does not want a "new Cold War", President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Sunday, urging the Trump administration to treat all countries equally ahead of a trip ...

Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.

It’s the end of the world — as we know it. A plurality of Americans believe we are headed toward World War III, a shocking new poll found. Nearly half of people surveyed in the US — 46% — think a new ...

On the Tuesday, February 10, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: For the first time in over half a century, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers ...

At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, an imposing spy aircraft stands outside the main entrance — a relic from a pivotal era of Cold War intelligence gathering that, in its time, pushed aerospace ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Back in the 1960s, the U.S. Army secretly planned to build a network of tunnels under Greenland’s ice sheet to ...

Nuclear-capable DF-5C missiles in Beijing on Sept. 3. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) We all sense that the world is entering a more uncertain phase. Alliances feel shakier, trade is fragmenting, and ...

Olivier Award-nominated British actor Ralf Little is best known for his roles as Antony Royle in the BBC's BAFTA-winning comedy The Royle Family with Caroline Aherne, Jonny in the BBC's much-loved Two ...

For the first time, we will live in a world without constraints on the US-Russian nuclear arsenal. “If it expires, it expires” is a reasonable way to manage a week-old gallon of milk—not a treaty ...