There was a time in the distant past when Americans considered the threat of nuclear annihilation to be a more imminent threat. People built fallout shelters, and schools practiced drills, teaching ...

For many of us, the chilling call of the air-raid siren has faded into distant memory, a civil defense ghost of the Cold War only revisited in the occasional cinematic period piece or the ...

Taipei came to a brief standstill on Thursday when air raid sirens forced people off the streets and into underground shelters in a rehearsal for a Chinese attack.