Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

In “The Technological Republic,” the Palantir CEO exhorts Silicon Valley to embrace techno-militarism in the service of ...

Perhaps the most consequential moment in this evolution occurred in 2016, when Donald Trump won the presidency of the United ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...

The Department of Education has faced opposition since its initial establishment in 1867.

Team Canada battled the Soviets during a politically fraught era. Now, today's Canadians have the Americans – and their ...

One woman, a self-proclaimed psychic from Leningrad, had apparently torn up a dismembered frog’s heart with her mental powers ...

A worker removes the US Agency for International Development (USAID) sign on the entrance of the agency's headquarters on ...

For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an ...

His 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer is considered one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well ...

The Greatest Interviews series returns to 1994 and the creator of the AK-47 assault rifle, a man struggling with the weight ...