Given its industry, Chicago area was considered a primary target during the Cold War, and that includes Northwest Indiana.

It goes back far enough that militaries have developed weapons intended to overwhelm enemies and shift the balance of power on the battlefield.

Cold War firearms shaped modern infantry tactics by pushing combat decision-making down to the squad level. The AK-47 and M16 standardized assault rifle doctrine worldwide by prioritizing reliability ...

In his book “Atomowi. Nuclear Tests on Humans,” Dynowski describes how thousands of young troops were placed near atomic explosions during military experiments. The accounts, he says, reveal both ...

Spanning from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the Cold War wasn’t a traditional war that was fought on battlefields. As a high-stakes race between the U.S., the Soviet Union, and their allies, the ...