The US Military Almost Deployed Nuclear Missile Trains on American Railroads During the Cold War The Cuban Missile Crisis was two decades in the rearview, but in the early 1980s, Cold War tensions between the United States...
The US Military Already Has a Decades-Old Countermeasure for Russian Space Nukes During the Cold War, the Air Force used an F-15 and a specially designed missile to destroy a satellite in orbit.
'The Day After' Director Returns to Sound the Alarm with 'How to Stop a Nuclear War' Filmmaker Nicholas Meyer is back to warn us again about the danger posed by nuclear weapons and how the world is currently...
The Overlooked Legacy of Workers and 'Downwinders' Who Were Harmed by Race to Build First Atomic Bomb Thousands of workers at the early sites such as Oak Ridge and Hanford and at later sites "paid a very high price for their...
The Trinity Test Site Is Open One More Time This Year. You Might Not Get In. White Sands Missile Range, where the U.S. detonated the world's first nuclear weapon known as "the Gadget" on July 16, 1945...
'Go Get Screened': Space Force Chief Urges Missileers to Get Tested as Cancer Study Underway The Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine said last month it is conducting a study examining a potential link between...
Is Russia Close to Using Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine? "It's hard to say with confidence whether Ukrainian drone strikes deep within Russian territory might induce Vladimir Putin...
China's Nuclear Arsenal Ballooning as Competition Rises in the Pacific, Pentagon Says China could triple its nuclear stockpile over the coming decade as it pursues more coercive and aggressive tactics in the...
Why Are NATO and Russia Both Now Training for Nuclear War? "Paths must be found that avert the specter of the worst possible outcome for Ukraine, Russia and the rest of the world."
North Korea’s New Law Is Far From the Only Nuclear Threat the World Faces We face a gulf between the constitutional theory of shared power in government and nuclear practice that continues to loom...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...