Pope Leo XIV has called for a renewed commitment to diplomacy to resolve conflicts. He made the appeal Wednesday as he marked ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter the public consciousness again. For 80 years, the world has lived with the… ...

In the shadow of Point Sur Lighthouse along California's Big Sur Coast, the Point Sur Naval Facility, once one of the world’s most secretive sites, played a pivotal role in Cold War espionage.

China is reviving an ekranoplan design dubbed the "Bohai Sea Monster," echoing the Soviet "Caspian Sea Monster", a vessel that skims the sea at jet-like speeds. Meanwhile, the U.S. has ...

Technology Why bizarre Cold War hoverboats are making a comeback Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment.

In the U.S.-China conflict, President Trump is waging an economic assault. But Chinese leader Xi Jinping is fighting a Cold War. Xi is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy he has ...

This series of articles examines why today’s nuclear landscape is more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious than during the Cold War.

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

Glass beads cover a Soviet-era fighter at “The MiG-21 Project,” on view through Jan. 26, 2026 at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. (Museum of Flight) ...

NASA scientists found Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War military base, during a flight to map the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Ro Reddick’s music-infused comedy, set during the Cold War, finishes this year’s edition of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks festival on a high.

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a ...