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Though remaining unmentioned in official texts, the origins of the dubiously titled Cold War can be traced to policies pursued by American leaders during World War II itself. Following Nazi Germany’s calamitous defeat at Stalingrad in early 1943, Washington’s…

U.S. Department of EnergyThe 1954 “Castle Bravo” hydrogen bomb the biggest bomb ever detonated by the United States. Nuclear testing in the Pacific might be a remnant of the Cold War-era, but the fallout from this period has a much longer memory that persist…

The United States’ “nuclear coffin” could be leaking radioactive sludge into the Pacific Ocean.  The coffin holds the radioactive waste from testing nuclear weapons during the Cold War and could be causing untold damage to the ecology and marine life in the s…

This story originally appeared at Center for Public Integrity. The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, investigative newsroom in Washington, D.C. More of its national security work can be found here. By Patrick Malone With rising tensio…

The B-2, F-22, F-35 and pretty much every other American stealth aircraft originates from those early efforts to defeat the Soviet air defense system. The United States is the most formidable military power the world has ever seen. Arguably, since the end of…

Russia and Turkey will jointly produce the next generation S-500 aerial missile defense system, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. The United States, a military ally in the NATO alliance, has threatened sanctions against any country tha…

Radioactive waste from nuclear weapons tests could be seeping from its “concrete coffin” and leaking deadly atomic “sludge” into the Pacific Ocean. The United Nations Secretary-General recently admitted that he was “worried” about the waste escaping from a c…

Vox staffers debate this controversial episode — and ask what’s ahead for Westeros. By any standard of judgment, “ The Bells,” the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones, was a complete clusterfuck. While there was a lot to praise in terms of the lush cinemat…

Some people collect rocks. Others collect stamps. Peter Merlin, a former NASA archivist whos become a leading expert on military aircraft and Area 51, collects the physical remnants of government secrets. As he explains in the artist Trevor Paglens new book,F…

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres raised concerns on Thursday that a concrete dome built last century to contain waste from atomic bomb tests is leaking radioactive material into the Pacific. Speaking to students in Fiji, Guterres described t…