Once a key site of Cold War arms production, Rocky Flats is now a wildlife refuge. What happened to its troubled past?

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension marked by competition and confrontation between communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western democracies including the United States. For ...

The 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery’s U.S. Army Patriot Missile Systems arrived in Croatia May 17, 2021 to participate in DEFENDER-Europe 21 associated exercise Astral Knight 21 and exercise ...

Many of the tactics used by modern militaries were forged long before today’s conflicts ever began. During the Cold War, firearms were designed with an eye toward deterrence and large-scale war, but ...

Thanks to decades’ worth of cultural pressure on the international stage, most nations view the use of nuclear weapons in war as a reprehensible act. Today’s nuclear nations, by and large, subscribe ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story… In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, ...

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Finland has moved to lift a Cold War-era ban on importing nuclear weapons, a shift the government says is necessary after joining NATO. Newsweek reached out to Finland’s Defense Ministry for comment ...