The Birmingham Civil Defence Corps Bunker, constructed in 1954 during the Cold War, served as a command center for the Civil ...

While US officials are worried about Russian anti-satellite weapons, or ASATs, the behavior of Russia's Nivelir satellites is puzzling. It's clear that Russia is deliberately launching these ...

Japan is the one place in the world that has felt, and personally mourned, the staggering damage of nuclear warfare. The ...

This article appears in the August 2025 print edition with the headline “Damn You All to Hell!” When you buy a book using a ...

In 1961, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber broke apart mid-air, accidentally dropping two powerful hydrogen bombs near Goldsboro, ...

During the last decades and during the cold war, all the Canadian government choose not to increase the expenses in defenses ...

The Cold War-era shelter, hidden below the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia, was designed to house members of Congress in ...

Former high school debater Sarath K. Ganji explains how Project Solarium demonstrates the real-world use cases of policy ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the ...

Five countries plan to revive the use of a weapon prohibited by treaty for more than a quarter of a century, hoping to ...

Israel-Iran tensions settle into Cold War-like standoff after U.S. airstrikes, with experts suggesting managed containment as the realistic path forward instead of reconciliation.

Cold War Nuclear Tests: Testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, underground, underwater and above the atmosphere—using weapons shipped via rockets—has been an ongoing phenomenon since 1945.