Petting zoos, parks, and America’s pastime: how the language of deterrence depicts nuclear weapons as natural and ...

In the words of her biographer, Bandaranaike was “the symbol, the figurehead that was ... and upped her ratings during the 1982 Falklands War. Golda Meir could be cast as a nurturing grandmother ...

Since the Korean War, the North Korean army (1.2 million ... aimed at deterrence by equipping itself with a ballistic and nuclear force against the US, Pyongyang has moved on to preparing ...

From the Ford Nucleon to the Studebaker-Packard Astral, these vehicles failed to progress past the prototype stage in the ...

What if the U.S. Air Force had a flying nuclear-powered carrier? In the 1960s, Lockheed proposed just that with the CL-1201—a ...

Since the Cold War thankfully never became a full-scale “hot war,” the GUPPYs ended up never firing any shots in anger.

In the middle of the Sacramento Valley, where the earth transforms from flat, endless farmland to the craggy peaks of an ancient volcanic lake, my guide drives me past the creaking metal of a ...

So, for this week’s cinematic retrospective, let’s tack a trip to Japan in the 1960s to dive into an escapist experimental fantasia of queer community, go-go music, and oedipal complexes.

taken in the Turkish Cypriot enclave of northern Nicosia in the late 1960s, shows 15-year-old Suleyman posing with his rifle and his best friend, the two lads having heeded the call to perform ...

The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly last week in favor of launching a two-year study on the effects of nuclear war—the first such expert study the UN has pursued since the 1980s. A total of ...

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is warning that the “space for negotiation and diplomacy ... is getting ...

But for almost 20 years, from 1945 to 1963, nuclear testing was commonplace for many countries as they vied for status as world powers. Nuclear testing skyrocketed during the Cold War between the ...