After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

This concept of great power competition, one born from a misreading of the Cold War, is our concern. It elides the violence ...

Discover the tense postwar moment that gave rise to Britain’s nuclear V-force. As Cold War fears escalated, the RAF sought a ...

NATO is bracing for potential conflict, driven by concerns over Russian aggression. A new defense posture aims for a 5% of ...

Three minutes, a football and a biscuit. These are all a president of the United States needs to start nuclear war. During a ...

Speaking at a NATO meeting in The Netherlands, Trump introduced Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former Fox News ...

Would the president change the "Department of Defense" back to the "Department of War"? He sounds increasingly serious about ...

It's called 'National Security Strategy 2025: Security for the British People in a Dangerous World', and it was published on ...

EXCLUSIVE: A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has highlighted the speed at which ...

Yet many welfare states have been built the world over without an ideology of national security following in their wake.