Strategic bombing, originating in World War I with German zeppelins bombing London, has evolved into a crucial military ...

The B-52 delivered some of the biggest wallops to North Vietnamese targets. Whether it be threatening to rain down nuclear hellfire upon the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, blasting ...

Production Lines Not in Place for B-52 Those 744 B-52s that were built during the Cold War rolled off assembly lines in Seattle, Washington, and Wichita, Kansas. Even if the buildings are still in ...

Like most Cold War projects, the Air Force Weapons Lab ... goal of the project was to test strategic assets like the B-52 Stratofortress and the E-4 National Emergency Airborne Command Post ...

China's development of the H-20 next-generation bomber could challenge U.S. dominance in strategic long-range bombers. As the ...

For most of the second half of the twentieth century, American strategic planners faced a fairly static challenge: a Cold War ...

One of the newest aircraft to enter service in the U.S. Air Force is the F-35 Lightning II, which is a fifth-generation ...

Strapped to a trailer and pulled by a pick-up truck along a runway once used by B-52 bombers in the Cold War, it wasn't the most glamorous entrance for a rocket about to make history. And it very ...

Diego Garcia, a small atoll in the Indian Ocean, has played a pivotal role in global geopolitics. Its strategic importance, ...

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects ...

In 2022, the U.S. government exchanged Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer, for the basketball star Brittney Griner; and a ...

US Air Force B-52 bombers that were deployed to England two ... In recent days, they have flown to the Arctic to participate in the NATO-led Cold Response exercise in Norway and in the NORAD ...