Cold War

Key point: A Cold War warrior has found a new niche. Huge yet surprisingly sleek and agile, the U.S. Air Forces B-1 Lancer strategic bomberspopularly dubbed Bones for B-ONEcircles over battlefields in Syria and Afghanistan like angels of death dispensing GPS…

The Stasis main job was spying on ordinary people who were not in line with party policies and values, hauntingly depicted in the 2006 German film The Lives of Others. The Stasi Museum is in the agencys former headquarters in Lichtenberg. The three floors hol…

Norway said it has discovered 10 submarines of the Russian northern fleet heading toward the Atlantic Ocean in the biggest such operation since the Cold War.  The deployment began just before Russia's foreign minister and the commander of the northern fleet …

China is really bullish on blockchain, the technology that verifies bitcoin transactions. An official at China's central bank official has urged commercial banks to "step up their application" of blockchain. Li Wei is the head of the technology department a…

The Trump administration has taken steps toward leaving a nearly three-decade-old agreement designed to reduce the risk of war between Russia and the West by allowing both sides to conduct reconnaissance flights over one anothers territories, U.S. officials s…

WASHINGTON - As it looks to return to the Moon, NASA is open to the idea of international participation, which could mean a non-American setting foot on Earth's natural satellite for the first time in history, global space chiefs said Monday. "I think there'…

China's assertive campaign to police discourse about its policies, even outside of its borders, and the acquiescence of American companies eager to make money in China, pose a dangerous and growing threat to one of this nation's core values: the freedom of ex…

Turkish nationalists and supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdoan may cheer Turkeys incursion into Syria and efforts to end Kurdish self-governance across Turkeys southern border. Erdoan may revel in nationalist fervor, but he fails to recognize that his c…

(Bloomberg) -- Malaysia may become a target of sanctions as the export-reliant economy is caught in the crossfire of the U.S.-China trade war, according to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Mahathir said trade tensions between the worlds two biggest economies…

HBOs Watchmen isnt a direct adaptation of the famed graphic novel, but rather a sequel set more than 30 years later. Still, familiar faces abound. A couple such faces appeared in this weeks premiere, but one of them was much more mysterious than the other. …