The B-2 programme ran for a decade before the public saw it. Workers couldn't tell their families. Test flights happened at night. Here's how America concealed the most recognisable aircraft ever built.

'B-2': How US built a flying wing In secret for 10 years?

In Operation Power Flite, three B-52s circumnavigated the globe in 45 hours without landing — 24,325 miles nonstop. The mission proved America could nuke anywhere on Earth.

In 1957, three B-52 bombers flew around the entire world nonstop, in just 45 hours

Under the START treaty, 375 B-52s were sliced apart by a 13,000-pound blade at Davis-Monthan AFB and left in the desert for 3 months so Russian satellites could confirm destruction.

US once literally chopped B-52 bombers in half with a guillotine so Russian satellites could watch

In 1961, a B-52 broke apart mid-air and dropped two live 3.8-megaton thermonuclear bombs on Goldsboro, NC. One bomb was one switch away from detonation.

How B-52 accidentally dropped two nukes on North Carolina and one switch saved millions

The B-52 and Tu-95 entered service a year apart in the 1950s. In 2026, both are still nuclear-capable and still intercepted by each other's air forces. Here's the full comparison.

America's B-52 vs Russia's Tu-95: Two Cold War bombers, still flying, still pointing at each other

On January 17, 1966, a B-52 scattered four thermonuclear bombs over Palomares, Spain after a mid-air collision. One was lost at sea for 80 days. Here's the full story.

It once accidentally dropped 4 hydrogen bombs over Spain and nobody told the public for days

Doomsday Clock moves to 85 seconds before midnight, signaling escalating global risks. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have moved the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before. The clock is now 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to catastrophe since its debut 80 years ago. The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 during Cold War, when the U.S and the Soviet Union were heading into a nuclear arms race.


Doomsday Clock: Planet Closer To Destruction Than Ever Before

Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution transformed Cuba from a close American partner into a Soviet ally, triggering a decades-long Cold War standoff.

US vs Cuba: How Fidel Castro turned a US ally into a Cold War enemy

A Cold War nuclear generator lost on Nanda Devi in 1965 is back in the spotlight. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has raised questions about the mission and its legacy. Watch the full story on the lost CIA device buried in the Himalayas and why it matters today.


Cold War Nuclear Device Lost in Himalayas 60 Years Ago Discovered 

The blast was so huge that it released energy equivalent to about 50 megatons of TNT, making the explosion 1,570 times more powerful than the combined bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

'1,570 times more powerful than Hiroshima and Nagasaki': The true story Tsar Bomba nuclear test

The secret Cold War era Russian “Doomsday Radio” has transmitted a message that has sent a wave of panic among everyone who heard it. It contained the name of a country which people think could be on Moscow's radar and possibly trigger World War III. 

Cold War era 'Doomsday Radio' triggers World War III fears with strange message

The atomic bomb was the first nuclear weapon ever developed. Its power comes from nuclear fission, the process of splitting heavy atoms, typically uranium-235 or plutonium-239, to release enormous energy.

Atomic vs nuclear bombs: The key difference behind world’s deadliest weapons

What was meant to be a landmark achievement quickly became a tense fight for survival, capturing the world’s attention and forever changing our understanding of what humans could endure beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

The deadly first spacewalk: How Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov escaped death in space

Berlin: Teufelsberg, a man-made hill in western Berlin, was the site of a major U.S. listening station during the Cold War known as Field Station Berlin. Today, the derelict site stands abandoned yet iconic, covered in graffiti and serving as a haunting reminder of Cold War espionage, visited by former operatives and tourists alike for its historical significance and panoramic views of Berlin.


Berlin: Former Cold War Spies Return to Derelict Berlin Spy Station at Teufelsberg 

Yet history offers an unexpected lesson: a small nation that resisted and, in its way, forced the enemy to withdrew forces, all without owning fighter jets. 

What Cambodia can learn from a country that fought and won without fighter jets

It started as an ordinary Soviet training flight, and became one of the strangest aviation incidents of the Cold War. 

How a fighter jet flew 900 kms across Europe without a pilot, before crashing into a farmhouse

It was built for speed, stealth, and fearless surveillance, a Cold War weapon that shaped geopolitics without ever firing a shot.

This jet survived 4000 missiles and flew faster than a bullet! All about SR-71 Blackbird

First flown in 1964, its top speed of 3530 kmph (Mach 3.2) and operational ceiling of 85,000 feet made it a technological marvel. It officially entered service in 1966.


Meet the SR-71 Blackbird: The world’s fastest jet ever built, reaching speeds of up to 3,500 kmph

The files have disclosed CIA's role in creating fake porn tapes of world leaders, 'demon dolls' of Osama Bin Laden and even attempting to develop remote control dogs.

'Fake sex tapes, Bin Laden's demon doll, Cold war condoms': CIA's secret missions revealed in JFK files

As per reports, the Asia-Pacific region is increasingly showing signs of an arms race that could destabilize one of the world's most economically vital areas. Major powers such as China, Taiwan, Australia, South Korea, and North Korea are significantly enhancing their military capabilities in response to rising tensions. The region faces a complex and dangerous landscape, suggesting the possibility of a new Cold War centred in the Asia-Pacific.

The New Arms Race in Asia-Pacific

Russia and the Western countries have exchanged 26 high-profile International prisoners in the biggest swap of its kind after the Cold War. Turkey mediated the landmark exercise. Watch in for more details!

Russia-West prisoner swap: Complex negotiations involving multiple countries

Turkey is coordinating an extensive prisoner swap between Russia and Belarus on one side and the United States, Germany and Slovenia on the other. US reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US marine Paul Whelan are among 26 prisoners released.

US President Joe Biden calls prisoner swap a feat of diplomacy

26 prisoners exchanged between Russia & west

William Calley, a former US Army officer and convicted mass murderer who was the face of My Lai massacre during Vietnam War, has died at the age of 80. He was considered the face of My Lai massacre, one of the most horrible episodes in America's futile invasion of Vietnam at the height of Cold War in the 1960s.

Who was William Calley, the only US Army officer convicted of My Lai massacre during Vietnam War?

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'B-2': How US built a flying wing In secret for 10 years?

Three B-52s flew around the world nonstop in 45 hours in 1957

The US chopped 375 B-52s with a guillotine for Russian satellites

How B-52 accidentally dropped two nukes on North Carolina

B-52 vs Tu-95: Two Cold War relics still on nuclear patrol in 2026

The day a B-52 dropped 4 hydrogen bombs over Spain