World War II was brought to its chilling climax in two brilliant, white flashes in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but while one chapter of history ended, another began. That of the ...

The Cold War ushered in a “renaissance for bomber aviation.” But the Kremlin’s demands for the Sukhoi T-4MS were more than the company could handle.

Russia deployed Su-33 and MiG-31 fighters to escort Tu-95MS bombers over the neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas ...

Ken Jones, a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, shares what it was like flying with nuclear bombs aboard his plane during the ...

Britain's only flying Cold War Vulcan bomber and which participated in Operation Black Buck bombing Stanley airport during the Falkland Islands conflict of 1982, will take its final flight next ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: As the Cold War opened, fighters and bombers both underwent a transformation. For instance, Jet engines and the airframes that could handle them transformed ...

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 ...

The CWSP is located in the LSE Department of International History, the home of some of the leading scholars of the Cold War in Europe. The CWSP focuses on the history of the Cold War, which uses ...

The United States has the smallest defense budget in nearly 100 years. If the U.S. is in a cold war, it seems to be cheaper and less urgent than the last.

This week, with wars still raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, escalating climate chaos and increasing biological and AI ...

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

Of course, the United States isn't the only military that operates strategic bombers — both Russia and China have their own fleets built up over decades through and since the Cold War.