From the Cuban missile crisis to the election of Donald Trump, history has seen inflection points where alternative outcomes ...

A US missile launcher sitting somewhere in Luzon could either lead to serious problems between China and the Philippines or ...

Summary and Key Points: During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, a Soviet submarine, B-59, came dangerously close to launching a nuclear torpedo at U.S. forces due to relentless ...

From the Cuban missile crisis to the election of Donald Trump, history has seen inflection points where alternative outcomes ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of ...

Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a "gesture of great hope" that he prayed would be undertaken elsewhere, as he welcomed an agreement the Vatican helped facilitate as ...

Crises — either real or merely perceived — can make or break political careers as news media and the voting public judge how ...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War, the U.S. reportedly made a shocking “mistake” regarding its nuclear bomb launch codes. According to a former military officer responsible for ...

While not as well known as the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the “Norwegian rocket incident” is considered one of the world’s closest brushes with nuclear war. In the early morning hours of ...

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has left tens of thousands of dead, displaced millions and triggered the biggest crisis in relations between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile ...