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Beginning in the 1970s, U.S. government intelligence agencies investigated the existence of 'remote viewing.' Those files are now declassified.

This post was adapted from a real conversation between CPD Faculty Fellow Nicholas J. Cull and Elsa Goebel-Bain, a student at ...

The LARC-LX, or Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo 60-ton vehicle, served as a ship-to-shore connector for the U.S. Army and Republic of China from the 1950s through 2001, carrying bulky cargo, ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Brazil does not want a "new Cold War", President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Sunday, urging the Trump administration to treat all countries equally ahead of a trip ...

Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.

For the last four years, policymakers in Washington and European capitals have been consumed by a single question: how to respond to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Their focus is ...

Since invading Ukraine in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin has sharply increased his hybrid war on the Western nations that support Kyiv. These hostile actions—which are too minor to justify a ...

On the Tuesday, February 10, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: For the first time in over half a century, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers ...

The Coast Guard plans to open a $300 million icebreaker facility in Juneau, Alaska—but it is not clear exactly when. Seattle is approximately 1,500 to 1,800 miles (2,400 to 2,900 km) from the Arctic ...

At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, an imposing spy aircraft stands outside the main entrance — a relic from a pivotal era of Cold War intelligence gathering that, in its time, pushed aerospace ...

WASHINGTON, DC -- The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the final remaining bilateral agreement limiting US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expired on February 5, closing a chapter that ...