During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing ...

The US has been rocked by its second aircraft disaster in just two days after at least six people were killed following a ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of ...

Creating an Iron Dome for America would not just be a poor decision — it would be a monumental failure in defense policy.

Ukrainian officials said at least 14 people were killed in Poltava, Ukraine, after a Russian missile hit a residential building in the city, which is nearly 150 miles from the front lines.

The Vatican’s three-way dialogue with Cuba and the United States goes back further and reached its most critical moment at the peak of the Cuban missile crisis when, in the fall of 1962, Soviet ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase in response to a possible attack ...

From the Cuban missile crisis to the election of Donald Trump, history has seen inflection points where alternative outcomes ...

From the Cuban missile crisis to the election of Donald Trump, history has seen inflection points where alternative outcomes ...

Locating the armaments in the Caribbean island within range of the USA would have been a threat and victory rolled into one.