"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...

During the Cold War, NATO searched for effective methods to prevent a potential Soviet invasion. One of the most ...

The diffusion of technology means U.S. military superiority must come not just from the weapons it has, but from how it uses ...

The system of ranking the perceived threat to national security was created during the Cold War ... of U.S. forces in preparation for execution of contingency or emergency war plans.

During the Cold War, the term strategic forces referred to nuclear weapons deployed on strategic delivery systems: intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles ...

Air Force engineers and archaeologists in Alaska have discovered a food cache on the Upper Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage ...

As international car makers like Mercedes, Nissan and Volkswagen pulled out of Russia, President Putin told top businessmen and officials to drive a Lada instead. It looks like he has now given the ...

The aircraft was on the ground at a Russian airbase in the annexed Crimea region when it was struck by a truck traveling at high speed.

Chairman Xi Jinping is very serious in his admonitions that the People Liberation Army PLA should get ready for war Such preparations are literally and ver ...

“Dear Barbara,” it begins, “The doctor here at Lackland AFB, in San Antonio, Texas, told me right after I endured six or seven needle shots of something, that I had something called a ‘deviated septum ...

Rachel is a dusty, hardscrabble spot, located in the Joshua tree desert just outside Area 51, that highly guarded Air Force ...

US Air Force personnel are being trained to conduct a range of skills outside their normal job roles to ensure ACE readiness.