From the jagged stealth of the F-117 to the blistering speed of the MiG-25, these 17 aircraft waged a high-altitude shadow ...

During the Cold War, the US secretly built Camp Century under Greenland’s ice, planning to hide 600 nuclear missiles.

He participated in the first baseball game at the North Pole. Later, he became an expert in the impact of climate change on ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union explored a weapon so extreme it sounds fictional: launching nuclear warheads into low ...

A Cold War volunteer has been recounting his "bleak and secretive" existence as a look-out in a nuclear bunker on the East ...

If there was one single place that could be called the front lines of the clandestine Cold War, Berlin was it. The city, like the rest of Germany, was divided. It was a bastion, deep inside the heart ...

A Russian expedition has located a long-lost Soviet nuclear waste disposal site in the Arctic's Barents Sea, revealing Cold War dumping practices. Researchers found a barge carrying reactor ...

What was the Cold War? -- Spy satellites -- Nuclear weapons -- Ballistic missiles -- Submarine launched ballistic missiles -- Strategic cruise missiles -- Mega-artillery -- Human warriors on the ...

The overall theme of the early part of the Cold War was that of subterfuge — with scientific missions often providing excellent cover for placing missiles right on the USSR’s doorstep. Recently NASA ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Stig Bergling, one of Sweden's most notorious Cold War spies who sold details of its defenses to the Soviet Union in the 1970s, has died at the age of 77, Swedish media reported ...

and around the District? Enter the world of espionage during the "Spies: North by Northwest" tour with guide Carol Bessette. Sunday at 1 p.m. Meet at the southeast corner of Wisconsin and ...