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

Even today, in the throes of a norm-busting trade war with China, there is talk of some kind of leader-to-leader grand ...

Trump has sought to decrease diplomatic tensions with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his war with Ukraine, while ...

Author Charlie English joins Morning Joe to discuss the new book 'The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War ...

As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for nuclear missiles — underneath the ice in Greenland. Dubbed "Project Iceworm," the ...

Events that displease China’s diplomats are usually good for the United States, and this week they were hopping mad. At the ...

The president’s most important job, as the sole steward of America’s nuclear arsenal, is to prevent nuclear war. And a ...

War Powers Resolution attempted to constrain presidential power, but presidents have exploited its many loopholes.

As President Richard Nixon addressed a tense nation on live television, his grave demeanor hinted at a pivotal moment, and ...

An Iranian missile slammed into a hospital in Israel, causing no serious injuries but drawing a quick vow of retaliation against Iran's supreme leader for "war crimes." ...

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 ...

The virus that commonly causes cold sores starts reshaping our genome within an hour of infection to boost its own growth, which scientists could take advantage of to treat severe cases.