During the Cold War, the Soviet Union explored a weapon so extreme it sounds fictional: launching nuclear warheads into low ...

At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

Developed during the height of Cold War tension, the Panavia Tornado was designed to fight a conflict few believed could be ...

Declassified Soviet-era files describe a terrifying night in 1982 when UFOs hovered over a missile base, activated nuclear ...

Erin D. Dumbacher is the Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The United States has the power and a process to respond when it is under nuclear attack, but only ...