Colonel, shared what it was like flying with nuclear bombs aboard his plane during the Cold War. He was one of the ... was ready to go anywhere around the world. “Well, they were atomic bombs, ...

The system of ranking the perceived threat to national security was created during the Cold War ... the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The DEFCON 2 exercise term is “Fast Pace.” ...

and for the world. The Cold War and the Culture of Secrecy Official secrecy in the U.S. during the Cold War altered the culture of government and served many hidden agendas. Matthew Connelly explains ...

Continuity of government created during ... during the Cold War, as fear that Russia would launch a direct strike on the U.S. gripped the country. After the second tower of the World Trade Center ...

The Soviet Union's collapse and America's current decline have remarkable similarities. The Soviet Union failed because it marginalized the entrepren ...

USAID's website has dropped offline without explanation in the Trump administration's two-week-old funding freeze of U.S. foreign aid and development funding.

Most of the world's data travels via ocean cables that are at risk of frequent sabotage. DW explains where they lie and how ...

Democrats say President Donald Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency.

John Swift examines a vital element of the Cold War and assesses the motives of the ... Kennedy’s presidency also saw the world stand on the brink of nuclear war during the Cuba Missile Crisis of ...