The specter of nuclear war cast a long shadow over the 20th century, serving as a reminder of humanity's capacity for ...

The Trump team’s vacillations may not just cost Ukraine its independence; it could set the stage for a cataclysm.

The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and ...

TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the book “The Shortest History of War: From Hunter-Gatherers to Nuclear Superpowers―A ...

The veteran CBS and NBC journalist writes about covering the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and ...

If, for example, a North Korean missile was simply being tested—even in a flagrantly hostile way, as most of Pyongyang’s tests are—the Americans would not shoot the missile down. On the other hand, if ...

Drones have the potential to enhance nuclear deterrence, but they also introduce significant risks in terms of escalation ...

It is unclear if such a result is possible during a nuclear war. In her recent book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen calls the continuity-of-government plans that would be followed during a ...

This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The ...

A showdown is building between Communist China and the West. From rising tensions over Taiwan, trade, TikTok, fentanyl, ...

The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) began mainly as a religious civil war in the German-speaking lands, but it ended up as the ...

As Trump appears to blame Ukraine for starting the war, saying the country could have made a deal earlier, Guy Walters, looks ...