Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.

The Coast Guard plans to open a $300 million icebreaker facility in Juneau, Alaska—but it is not clear exactly when. Seattle is approximately 1,500 to 1,800 miles (2,400 to 2,900 km) from the Arctic ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Back in the 1960s, the U.S. Army secretly planned to build a network of tunnels under Greenland’s ice sheet to ...

A renewal of nuclear weapons testing exposes mounting risks, collapsing treaties and a new era of proliferation shaping the second Cold War. July 30, 2020: Activists in costumes as United States ...

New London — Connecticut College students walk across Tempel Green to classes on Monday as temperatures rose above freezing for the first time in over a week. According to the National Weather Service ...

Students across South Florida are braving the cold weather Monday as they headed back to school with temperatures dipping back into the 30s.

Some forty years ago, the U.S. launched a series of secret satellites, designed to spy on the country’s adversaries. Launched between March 1971 and February 1987, those satellite missions, nicknamed ...

After the Cold War ended, our terror of nuclear war faded from the screen. Now it’s resurgent — and more fatalistic than ever. By Trevor Quirk In 1964, the ...

James Cheshire receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and ...

Chicago Public Schools has canceled classes and afterschool activities Friday due to sub-zero temperatures and dangerously cold wind chills. Schools are expected to reopen Monday, according to ...

President Donald Trump has said the U.S. would seize Greenland “one way or the other” for security purposes, but during the Cold War, the strategic island was a de facto American military outpost as a ...