The trajectory of a crisis depends on three resources: power, determination, and information. Power is the obvious variable. Most of the time both sides have a fair grasp of the distribution of power.

Writing in the Times, he suggested that could trigger a confrontation similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The extraordinary warning came as the government scrambles to justify the proposed ...

The first of two vessels carrying 1,000 tons of a Chinese-made chemical that could be a key component in fuel for Iran’s military missile program has anchored outside the Iranian port of Bandar ...

At least one person was killed in the capital Kyiv, Zelenskyy said. LONDON -- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine called on Western partners to apply more pressure to Russia after an ...

Whatever one chooses to label that alliance, the Iranians have just upped the ante in their contribution to that alliance, teaming up with the Russians in the testing of a new missile defense system.

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While not as well known as the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the “Norwegian rocket incident” is considered one of the world’s closest brushes with nuclear war. In the early morning hours of ...

A missile was fired at flight 8243 while there was drone activity above the city of Grozny in Chechnya, exploding next to the aircraft mid-flight and sending shrapnel ripping through the cabin ...

Two Iranian ships docked in China have been loaded with a critical ingredient to produce propellant for ballistic missiles, people familiar with the matter said—a demonstration of the challenge ...

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The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is set to showcase the indigenous short-range quasi-ballistic missile Pralay at this year’s Republic Day parade. The missile, which is ...