In May 1958, the CIA’s Far East Division hatched a plan: recruit an attractive white woman to extract information from the ...

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Hegseth shuts the Office of Net Assessment for no good reason.

Documents from the 1950s and 1960s show how the Pentagon poured support into climate and cold-region research to boost the ...

Dissidents resisting authoritarian regimes should be independent of the United States—and so should their media sources.

Paris and London can provide the assurances that stop a continental race for nuclear weapons, but it won't be easy.

The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.

It turns out Europe’s favorite American import isn’t fast food or Netflix. It’s missiles, and Europe needs to start making ...

The Cold War era was marked by political tension, espionage, and a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet ...

Some U.S. national security experts have taken to calling this group “the axis of upheaval” or “the axis of autocracy,” ...

The American disaster in Vietnam was supposed to have put to rest the folly of US military interventions to shore up ...

Korea must be unified under a liberal constitutional form of government that is based on freedom and individual liberty, free market principles, the rule of law and human rights, as determined by the ...