Throughout the Cold War, military planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain built weapons designed to deter the unthinkable. Yet several of those systems came dangerously close to coming active and ...

In early February of 1943, Gene Grabeel walks toward a corner of a large, crowded room inside Arlington Hall near Washington, D.C. Around her, clutches of people huddle over tables and quietly rifle ...

The following is a transcript of the Hon. Pierre Poilievre’s remarks from . These remarks have been edited for clarity. Check against delivery. Berlin, Germany – It’s an honour to be in Berlin, a city ...

In 1946, less than a year after the end of World War Two, Britain's wartime leader sounded an urgent warning about the Soviet threat to the West.

Regarding “The Cold War’s Last Man Standing” (Weekend Interview, Feb. 14): Tunku Varadarajan says that Polish hero Lech Walesa may be the last man standing among those leaders who caused the demise of ...

On the Tuesday, February 10, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: For the first time in over half a century, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the past months has enjoyed a series of successes, both rhetorical and diplomatic, that deserve more attention and praise than has to date been received. On January 22, ...

Horror, more than any other genre, has the freedom to do what it wants. Horror can be slow, creeping dread, or it can be fast-paced, over-the-top mayhem. It can scare us by showing so little, or it ...

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 ...