The USSR-built Plokštinė Missile Base once housed nuclear missiles aimed at Western Europe. Abandoned in the late 1970s, it’s ...

Take a flight of discovery high above the haunting remains of historic bunkers with this drone footage, showcasing these fortifications that once stood at the center of wartime strategy. For more ...

The Brevard County Commission adopted a resolution proclaiming Thursday, July 24, as Space Coast Day in honor of the 75th ...

The Japanese plantation colony became the launch site for the atomic bombings of Japan. Today, it’s been nearly forgotten by ...

THERE ARE no big red buttons in the underground bunkers, or “capsules”, that control America’s nuclear missiles. Instead, launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) involves decrypting and ...

Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves: After arriving at the Alamogordo base camp on July 15, a brief review of the situation with Oppenheimer revealed that we might be in trouble. The bomb had been assembled and ...

Old airports don’t just vanish. Some become parks, landmarks and quiet corners of history. Step onto former runways that ...

What sounds like the plot of a low-budget horror film came to life in Aiken, South Carolina, in early July. Radiological Control Operations employees at the Savannah River Site found a radioactive ...

I N THE DEPTHS of the cold war, American spooks and generals came to suspect that the nuclear-weapons club was about to gain ...

The mission of Millvale-based Grist House Craft Brewery is to grind out great beers. Soon they’ll be making suds inside a ...

In the U.S.-China conflict, President Trump is waging an economic assault. But Chinese leader Xi Jinping is fighting a Cold War. Xi is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy he has ...