The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of ...

The LARC-LX, or Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo 60-ton vehicle, served as a ship-to-shore connector for the U.S. Army and Republic of China from the 1950s through 2001, carrying bulky cargo, ...

Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before Russia started pushing migrants across the two countries’ roughly 830-mile ...

A 1960 explosion involving a nuclear-tipped missile at McGuire Air Force Base left radioactive contamination that required decades of cleanup. Wrightstown, NJ – A Cold War missile accident at what is ...

At the start of the war, Germany’s anti-tank forces relied heavily on outdated guns and slow-moving equipment that struggled ...

Time to tally up all the Eagles.

Einstein depicted a theoretical Third World War as an immensely destructive event which would set humanity back to the Stone Age, which was at the time not unreasonable. Given the way in which the ...

The lecture that became one of the most consequential speeches in world history took place on March 5, 1946. Churchill came ...

Professor Narges Bajoghli explains how harsh sanctions and propaganda had created a political divide among Iranians.

Amid constant threats from the US president, many ordinary people are at their limits. Some express exhaustion, others hope for a change.

The current US conflict with Iran has its roots in the CIA-backed coup in 1953, which removed a democratically-elected prime minister and replaced him with the ...

In the east German industrial town of Leuna, Christof Günther had been looking forward to a quiet Christmas with his ...