Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

When Soviet-backed North Korean forces invaded South Korea in June 1950, American military planners anticipated the worst. They saw the conflict as the potential start of World War III. While the ...

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) When news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reached Germany, its leadership was absorbed ...

One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold ...

The groundbreaking “Have Blue” design, which ultimately became the F-117 Nighthawk, relied heavily on research conducted by Soviet physicist Pyotr Ufimtsev. The F-117 Nighthawk was the world’s first ...

In the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union unveiled a jet so fast it terrified the West. Built to intercept America’s XB-70 Valkyrie bomber, the MiG-25 Foxbat could soar at Mach 3 and climb ...