On Feb. 12, 1964, a little more than 10 weeks following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a film called Seven Days in May detonated on American movie screens.

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

One of the best ways to find a place of balance and light amid all the chaos is by creating and appreciating art, which can get to the heart of the matter by tapping not just the intellect but the ...

Hours slip by unnoticed as you lose yourself in the maze of memories and merchandise. It’s easy to enter the Antique Mall of America in the bright light of morning and emerge, blinking and disoriented ...

On the face of it, the demand sounds like a perfectly reasonable appeal to the world’s conscience – to allow those inadvertently caught in the throes of a great regional war to return ... state. On ...

The veteran CBS and NBC journalist writes about covering the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

The President’s cries for nuclear disarmament ring hollow after years of broken promises and shredded treaties.

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

Mr. Kim said U.S. deployments of nuclear strategic assets ... would take the fact that they carried out war exercises that were more intense than ever before at a time when diplomacy schedules ...

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning director R.J. Cutler’s latest project is taking him to a very remote and very icy environment. He’s ...

Rockets propelled by nuclear reactors could slash the time it takes us to get to Mars. The first humans to Mars might someday ride a rocket propelled by a nuclear reactor to their destination.