A doomsday prepper has compiled a detailed resource mapping America's nuclear fallout shelters, many dating to the Cold War. "It is more important than ever to take the power to start a nuclear ...

A Cold War-era map makes a chilling prediction about the catastrophic fallout that could blanket the US in the event of a ...

Ours was the USS ESSEX, CVA9. This was strictly during the cold war, between the Korean war and Vietnam. Our primary mission was low level long range nuclear weapon delivery. This consisted of 50 ...

Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...

One of hundreds of documents assessing possible locations for detonating a smuggled Soviet nuclear weapon ... leaders had decided to start an all-out war.

BBC Two's new Cold War Season explores ... of a brutal episode in Cold War history. The US president's role in the stand-off that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

China has urged the US to drop its "Cold War mentality" after Washington said it planned to diversify its nuclear armoury with smaller bombs. "The country that owns the world's largest nuclear ...

The Cold War was about to enter its most critical phase, when the world would be pushed to the brink of nuclear war. The world experienced a bumpy ride in the final years of the Cold War ...

But Hitler's Nazi menace would soon be replaced by a new threat to world peace as the Soviet Union and the United States faced off in the Cold War ... designed to hold nuclear warheads.

This once top-secret US military base, built at the height of the Cold War, contained an even more covert mission - storing nuclear missiles in Arctic tunnels. What remains now is an abandoned relic ...

While there is no immediate sign of nuclear warheads being used in the Russia-Ukraine war, the risks of a nuclear exchange are surely at their highest for 40 years. So why is there so little ...