Within months of the Cuban Missile Crisis, weapons designers at Los Alamos National Laboratory began engineering what would ...

Created during the Cold War as a system of progressive levels of defense readiness for a potential nuclear attack, DEFCON is ...

Ukraine intercepted a radio communication from a Russian commander allegedly ordering his troops to execute Ukrainian soldiers who had surrendered to them.

The US intervention has deprived India of several strategic and political advantages ...

Despite frequent nuclear threats from Vladimir Putin since the Ukraine war began, including a November 2024 lowering of ...

President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine triggered the worst breakdown in relations between Russia and the West since the ...

Rodney Warwick on the crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear ... Such was the horrific nightmare facing humanity fifty years ago, from 12 to 27 October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crises ...

UK and Germany announced their intention to jointly develop a “deep precision strike” missile with a range of 2,000 km (1,243 miles) as part of the Trinity House Agreement. The announcement ...

The Department of Defense “has developed a draft architecture and implementation plan for a Golden Dome system that will protect Americans and our homeland from a wide range of global missile ...

The GUR said the RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile has a range of more than 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) — reportedly nearly double the distance from Russia to the UK. In a post on ...

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