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Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

Lost for nearly 80 years, the Brazilian warship Vital de Oliveira, sunk by a Nazi U-boat in WWII, has been identified off the ...

Readers respond to the latest dire polling for Labor, Dutton’s nuclear power hopes, and Donald Trump’s Ukraine negotiations.

Last week I took a look a the military service from the American Revolution to the Civil War of the people elected to the ...

You may have seen a submarine returning to port with a Jolly Roger flag waving from its mast. It turns out this is part of a ...

A Norwegian explorer sails across the Pacific on a wooden raft, braving storms, sharks, and doubts to prove an ancient sea ...

German election: Why are voters voting for the far-right? The Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) is polling in second place ahead of the country's federal election.

German voters will elect a new government on 23 February after Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition collapsed. Main issues include immigration, economic recession, and the rise of the far-right AfD.

Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German ... that the submarine had gone down, too, some experts remained skeptical, as its wreck was never found. Could UC-18 and its 28-man crew have ...

To leave a lasting impression, villains not only have to present a real challenge to the hero, but they also have to evoke ...

And I opened it up, and there was a this beautiful sketch of my mother that was done during World War II,” said Basham Included ... the last major offensive by German forces in Europe and ...