Pharaonic military projects, each stretching for more than 3,000 miles, reflected deep Cold War fears that the Arctic was the ...

Discover the high-stakes strategy behind Operation Chrome Dome, the U.S. Air Force’s airborne nuclear alert mission. Learn ...

In 1961, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber broke apart mid-air, accidentally dropping two powerful hydrogen bombs near Goldsboro, ...

From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – long-range, strategic bombers.

From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – long-range, strategic bombers. As the conflict wore on ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S. Air Force test pilot Fitzhugh L. “Fitz” Fulton Jr. was in the cockpit.

Anglo-French agreement to develop close cooperation in nuclear weapons strategy strengthens Europe’s security whatever the ...

The United States developed and built one of the most advanced flying machines in the world. Then it shut it down before it even finished its order. Here's why.

To this day, the fastest bomber on the face of the Earth is a North American design, even though it never actually took to ...

In 1958, the amendment of the McMahon Act updated the special partnership with Britain in the nuclear weapons sphere. Nuclear ...

THE UK’s deadly arsenal of nuclear bomber jets will only be protected by a 5ft garden fence amid fury over the Brize Norton ...

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes ...