Cold War

It is day 13 of America’s surprise war with Iran — by sheer coincidence, it’s Friday the 13th — and I am delirious. I haven’t had a coffee since I woke up at 5AM, because I’m not allowed to bring outside beverages into the Pentagon (the security screening cutoff was…

A retired US Air Force launch officer claims UFOs disabled multiple nuclear missiles when they appeared around the Montana base where he was stationed decades ago. Robert Salas claims a mysterious force paralyzed the military’s ability to control 10 Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with nuclear warheads at Malmstrom…

President Trump on Friday invoked a Cold War-era law in a bid to boost oil production off Southern California's coast and meet demand in the wake of the Iran war.Why it matters: The president's signing of an executive order allowing use of the Defense Production Act shows he's trying to…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Here’s the scene: A man wearing a trench coat and a fedora sits on a park bench, looking up frequently from his newspaper to cast furtive glances at passersby. A stray cat wanders by.…

by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 March 2026 / 1,701 Views Publisher NumskulL Games and developer Smitner Studio announced the pixel-art dystopian block-pushing puzzler, Hazard Pay, will launch for the PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam in June. View a trailer of the game below: Read details on…

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged Donald Trump to treat all nations equally and avoid a “new Cold War” after the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a key legal basis for his tariff measures Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday urged Donald Trump to…

The Supreme Court delivered a crushing blow to President Donald Trump’s policy agenda on Friday, ruling that a Cold War–era law for economic emergencies does not give the executive branch a blank check to impose trillions of dollars in tariffs without congressional approval. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for himself…

Last Updated: February 19, 2026, 22:59 IST Once close allies under the Shah's "Atoms for Peace" programme, the 1979 Islamic Revolution changed everything about this dynamic into a "cold war" between the US and Iran The relationship between the US and Iran has gone from a Cold War strategic partnership…

Area 51, officially an air force base established in southern Nevada during the Cold War, has long been at the centre of rumours claiming it conceals alien technology and UFOs. 21:14, Sun, Feb 15, 2026 Updated: 21:47, Sun, Feb 15, 2026 Former US President Barack Obama (Image: @Brian Tyler Cohen/Barack…

When the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was taking shape in the mid-20th century, one brilliant engineer had already quietly laid much of the groundwork for modern rocketry. Qian Xuesen, a Chinese-born aerospace engineer, helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the United States…