The overall theme of the early part of the Cold War was that of subterfuge — with scientific missions often providing excellent cover for placing missiles right on the USSR’s doorstep. Recently NASA ...
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Inside the CIA’s Cold War search for psychic spies

Few Cold War research programs looked less like engineering and more like folklore than the U.S. government’s search for psychic spies. Yet the effort was real, funded, documented, and sustained for ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant vehicles were used to transport supplies to Camp Century, a U.S. military base in Greenland, shown in June 1959. (Pictorial ...
Binkov's Battlegrounds Cold War secrets: The US once planned to nuke the moon Posted: February 23, 2026 | Last updated: February 23, 2026 It sounds like science fiction, but it’s true the U.S. once ...
Giant vehicles were used to transport supplies to Camp Century, a U.S. military base in Greenland, shown in June 1959. (Pictorial Parade/Getty Images) As the threat of nuclear war loomed during the ...