During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told ...

Most people reference the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 as the most dangerous period in Cold War history. It certainly had the ...

Many Cold War weapons remain in U.S. service because modernization proved faster and cheaper than replacement. Platforms like the B-52 and M2 Browning endure because no newer system matches their ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer ...

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During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described the state of US military as “Overmatched,” ...

BLYTHEVILLE -- Arkansans old enough to remember ducking and covering under school desks to practice for a Soviet thermonuclear attack face scary flashbacks at the BAFB (Blytheville Air Force Base) ...

One of the most successful infantry weapons of the Cold War, if not of the last century, is beginning its journey to ...

Explore a season of films depicting nuclear anxiety east of the Iron Curtain, including works from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.