Cold War

A test medium-range ground-launched cruise missile exits its ground mobile launcher at the US Navy-controlled San Nicolas Island off the coast of Los Angeles, California. (Photo: The Defence Department of US via Deutse Welle) After the dissolution of the Col…

Used as a propaganda tool by the Nazis and Soviets during the Second World War and Cold War, the remains of a 10th century male, unearthed beneath Prague Castle in 1928, have been the subject of continued debate and archaeological manipulation. The mysteriou…

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia and China have asked the United Nations Security Council to meet on Thursday over "statements by U.S. officials on their plans to develop and deploy medium-range missiles," according to the request seen by Reuters.Moscow and …

SEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean spokesman said on Thursday the United States’ recent mid-range cruise missile test and plans to deploy F-35 jets and offensive military equipment around the Korean peninsula were “dangerous” moves that would “trigger a new col…

(Adds quote, background) By Olesya Astakhova and Anne Kauranen HELSINKI, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the United States was now in a position to deploy a new land-based cruise missile in Romania and Poland, a sc…

Americas nuclear-weapons policy is worse than you think, says Nukemap creator Alex Wellerstein. He argues that the Cold War-era arms we once feared were never really dismantledtheyve just been adapted to the new geopolitical situation instead. Wellerstein jo…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Greenland is an autonomous Danish territory between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans US President Donald Trump has cancelled a state visit to Denmark after the nation's prime minister said Greenland was not for sale …

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption US ambassador Averell Harriman between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin Moscow, 4 August, 1945. The European chapter of World War Two was over, and the US and the USSR were pondering their future r…

The Pentagon conducted a test of a land-based cruise missile on Sunday, the first such test since the U.S. pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty earlier this month. Interested in Pentagon? Add Pentagon as an interest to stay up to…

(Adds background, details, byline) By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Monday it tested a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile with a range of more than 500 km (310 miles), the first such test since the Unit…