Known as the R-36Orb inside the military, the weapon was designed by Soviet military to bypass American defenses.

Former President Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social media abuzz ...

At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, an imposing spy aircraft stands outside the main entrance — a relic from a pivotal era of Cold War intelligence gathering that, in its time, pushed aerospace ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Back in the 1960s, the U.S. Army secretly planned to build a network of tunnels under Greenland’s ice sheet to ...

Nuclear-capable DF-5C missiles in Beijing on Sept. 3. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) We all sense that the world is entering a more uncertain phase. Alliances feel shakier, trade is fragmenting, and ...

Artificial intelligence has swept the U.S. into a high-stakes quest for dominance that has wide-ranging implications. The intense rivalry isn't solely a battle for the best technology and most ...

Some forty years ago, the U.S. launched a series of secret satellites, designed to spy on the country’s adversaries. Launched between March 1971 and February 1987, those satellite missions, nicknamed ...

The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency overseeing the US government’s fleet of spy satellites, has declassified a decades-old program used to eavesdrop on the Soviet Union’s military ...

Strange shapes under the ice revealed a secret frozen in time. Radar scans over Greenland uncovered an abandoned Cold War facility built for nuclear conflict. This video uncovers what Camp Century was ...

James Cheshire receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and ...

Inuit and their dog team stand in front of a U.S. military radar installation at Thule, Greenland, that scanned the skies for Soviet bombers and missiles during the Cold War. More than 100 native ...

Many Cold War weapons remain in U.S. service because modernization proved faster and cheaper than replacement. Platforms like the B-52 and M2 Browning endure because no newer system matches their ...