Few Cold War research programs looked less like engineering and more like folklore than the U.S. government’s search for psychic spies. Yet the effort was real, funded, documented, and sustained for ...

Giant vehicles were used to transport supplies to Camp Century, a U.S. military base in Greenland, shown in June 1959. (Pictorial Parade/Getty Images) As the threat of nuclear war loomed during the ...

The overall theme of the early part of the Cold War was that of subterfuge — with scientific missions often providing excellent cover for placing missiles right on the USSR’s doorstep. Recently NASA ...

CNN — The ice sheet that covers the northernmost reaches of our planet has expanded and shrunk over the past 2 million years -- but it was thought that Greenland's bitter cold and miles-deep ice had ...

Key Points and Submarine - In 1968, the Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific, prompting the CIA’s ultra-secret Project Azorian. -Using Howard Hughes’ purpose-built Glomar ...

An archaeological dig at Scarborough Castle has unearthed a lost nuclear bunker from the Cold War.

Cold War firearms shaped modern infantry tactics by pushing combat decision-making down to the squad level. The AK-47 and M16 standardized assault rifle doctrine worldwide by prioritizing reliability ...