A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, ...

The Cold War lasted from 1947 to 1991, and sometimes it was hard to tell there was a war going on at all. Unlike other wars, ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase ...

During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.

Hours after Donald Trump’s chilly inauguration in Washington, Taiwan’s parliament voted to freeze billions of dollars in ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

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The cold snap gripping the UK saw temperatures drop to -13.9C on Saturday – but a reprieve is on its way as forecasters predicted a return to milder weather this week. Temperatures have been below ...

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A total of 10,000 people in England are eligible for £50 Cold Weather Payments this winter so far - you can check out your postcode with our interactive map ... heating bills during cold snaps.

The King questioned Margaret Thatcher’s nuclear defence strategy during the Cold War, newly declassified documents have revealed. The monarch, who was then the Prince of Wales, demanded personal ...