At the height of the Cold War, US Air Force officials proposed a terrifying plan to help America demonstrate its superiority ...

The largest investigation of UFOs in the history of the world was launched by the former USSR in the late 1970s and produced piles of highly sensitive reports, including one that almost started World ...

The recently released film *House of Dynamite* depicts the final 18 minutes of a desperate race against time as an unidentified nuclear missile heads toward the U.S. mainland. The story revolves ...

Declassified Soviet-era files describe a terrifying night in 1982 when UFOs hovered over a missile base, activated nuclear launch systems and almost sent weapons toward New York.

For fifteen years, from the apex of the Cuban Missile Crisis until 1977, the launch code for America’s Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles wasn’t a complex, unbreakable string of digits.

Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. In the summer of 2022, I ...

Tensions are growing in east Asia. The threat of a Chinese attack on Taiwan persists and, in recent weeks, North Korea has been testing its long-range missile capabilities. Russia’s reorientation of ...

The sponge metaphor first emerged in 1978 when the Air Force’s top general announced a new plan to base cutting-edge nuclear missiles in the Southwest. The “Missile, Experimental,” or MX, a powerful ...