WITH nowhere to hide, Britain would have just minutes to prepare for the total devastation of a cataclysmic nuclear strike.

My recent column made some pretty sweeping historical claims: that the reelection of Donald Trump proved that we have definitively exited the post-Cold War era; that the phase of history that began in ...

Is the contest in the world today between democracies and authoritarian societies an updated version of the contest between capitalism and communism? It has been clear for over three decades that we ...

Today’s nuclear landscape is more precarious than during the Cold War July 3, 2025 at 5:16 p.m. EDT1 minute ago This page lists a series of articles by experts from the Federation of American ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Global military spending surged to an unprecedented $2.72 trillion in 2024, jumping 9.4% from the previous year and marking the steepest annual increase since the end of the ...

We met former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a fitting place for her: the museum in Berlin dedicated to the Wall, that great symbol of the Cold War division between East and West. Parts of the ...

The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it. June 18, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. EDTJust now Three minutes, a football and a biscuit ...

As President Donald Trump departed the White House for the U.S. Open on Sunday, a reporter asked what seemed like a highly inflammatory question. “Are you trying to go to war with Chicago?” said NBC’s ...