The owner and operator of a tall ship based in Dumfries has died aged 82. Roy Kerr was captain of his vessel 'La Malouine', ...

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 ...

“People thought I would use force,” President Trump said on Jan. 21 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, referring to his threats to annex Denmark’s Greenland. “I don’t have to use force. I don’t ...

What a difference a year makes. Last January, as Donald Trump stormed back into the White House, spoiling for a trade war and backed by an army of credentialed China hawks, it seemed a pretty safe bet ...

Six hours into a routine patrol mission over the Arctic, smoke began filling the cockpit of a B-52 Stratofortress carrying four hydrogen bombs. Captain John Haug and his crew fought to reach Thule Air ...

Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist writing about the future of money and the future of Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for Reuters and Forbes. The Cold War satirical novel The Mouse ...

The imperialist U.S. state stops at nothing. Anything goes. Really? After victory in World War II and with U.S. manufacturing in high gear, the United States in the 1960s dominated world finances, ...

Inuit and their dog team stand in front of a U.S. military radar installation at Thule, Greenland, that scanned the skies for Soviet bombers and missiles during the Cold War. More than 100 native ...

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 ...

Many Cold War weapons remain in U.S. service because modernization proved faster and cheaper than replacement. Platforms like the B-52 and M2 Browning endure because no newer system matches their ...

In 2025, American and world leaders were preoccupied with wars in the Middle East. Most dramatically, first Israel and the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities. Some commentators feared that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The U.S. government has launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...