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 ...

In the remote desert east of Fallon, a Cold War-era nuclear test was carried out beneath the Earth’s surface. The 1963 ...

Sharon Dilworth There is a timelessness to Sharon Dilworth’s novel “To Be Marquette.” Her characters probably resemble many ...

A new research project will celebrate untold stories of African Americans in the Air Force based in England during the Cold War.

I’ve interviewed over 100 folks for the Hanford History Project, and my last question was always, “what would you like future generations to know about your work at Hanford during the Cold War ...

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves: After arriving at the Alamogordo base camp on July 15, a brief review of the situation with Oppenheimer revealed that we might be in trouble. The bomb had been assembled and ...

Former high school debater Sarath K. Ganji explains how Project Solarium demonstrates the real-world use cases of policy ...

Pharaonic military projects, each stretching for more than 3,000 miles, reflected deep Cold War fears that the Arctic was the ...

Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear catastrophe is back.

As Michael Hirsch reports in Politico, the agenda “is far more ambitious than anything Ronald Reagan dreamed up.” (In 1980, President Reagan ordered a massive nuclear buildup, which scholars now ...

The creators of the narrative-driven NFT project Meatbags are hoping to buy an old Cold War-era nuclear bunker in Rutland, England, with funds raised through a token sale.