The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.

After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

Three minutes, a football and a biscuit. These are all a president of the United States needs to start nuclear war. During a ...

EXCLUSIVE: A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has highlighted the speed at which ...

A new map has now revealed where Americans can find safety during a nuclear attack, unearthing the locations still listed as ...

A secret American programme put 10m Western books and magazines in the hands of intellectuals and professionals in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union for 37 years ...

The number of nuclear warheads in the world, on the decline since the Cold War, is forecast to start rising again in coming years.

This new economic thinking represents a break from what we’ve come to expect from the American right. Its proponents argue ...

While Josef Stalin celebrated victory against an invader, Vladimir Putin seeks to justify Russians invading a neighbor. Putin insists that Russia is fighting NATO aggression in Ukraine and, like the ...

Before the Lightning, Britain pinned its hopes on an all-weather delta-wing beast: the Gloster Javelin. Designed to intercept high-altitude Soviet bombers, the Javelin was an ambitious twin-jet ...

Contrary to what many thought, movies like Edge of Tomorrow and The Fugitive turned out to be perfect masterpieces of the ...

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on ...