From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – long-range, strategic bombers. As the conflict wore on, technological ...

That paradigm may soon shift, thanks to the potential development of the program known as the Golden Dome missile defense initiative. Although extremely complex and challenging, it offers the ...

During the Cold War when the Soviet Union and the United States each had formidable nuclear missile arsenals aimed at each other’s cities and military installations, there was a doctrine of military ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction Enemy missiles are attacking your base! Shoot them down and see how long you can last against the onslaught. Games ...

The United States and other countries are faced with the existential threat of global warming. Instead of using all available resources to address it, however, they are spending trillions of dollars ...

Remember Curtis LeMay, the Air Force general played to chilling effect by Sterling Hayden in the 1964 movie "Dr. Strangelove"? If you're too young for that reference, you probably don't recall when ...

The United States needs a replacement concept for deterrence, the theory that was a child of the Cold War. It no longer is fit for purpose. Why? A war in which there were only losers and no winners ...

The White House is billing Friday’s relative quiet following a public and fiery clash between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk as a détente. Trump allies, ill at ease about the possibility of ...

There is nothing a public policy analyst enjoys more than a good analogy. Artificial intelligence literature is replete with them, provided regularly by think tank experts, industry luminaries — ...

To the Editor: In August of 1945, the U.S. had three nuclear weapons. We now have 3,708 omnicidal nukes, some 1,500 of which are ready for use. Their purpose? To deter nuclear-armed adversaries from ...