The IGY, they decided, would be celebrated in 1957.As part of the IGY, the Soviet Union vowed that it would launch an ...

On April 11, 1983, a B-52G bomber went down in the rugged mountains of southern Utah, killing all seven crew members on board ...

One of the most widely known accidents that occurred during the Cold war was in 1966, where a B-52 bomber returning to North Carolina, Spain collided mid-air with a KC-135 tanker during a ...

The B-52 Stratofortress is a strategic bomber that ... It has seen 70 years of service and was a stalwart of the Cold War, patrolling the skies carrying nuclear weapons. A US Air Force B-52H ...

On the morning of January 17, 1966, an American B-52 bomber on a secret mission over Cold War-era Europe collided mid-air ...

The most unique feature of the B-36 was its unusual hybrid propulsion system, combining both propeller and jet engines.

It’s been 57 years since Capt. Charles Roberts and his crew vanished over the Gulf of Mexico — Project Recover hopes to bring him home. Roberts, an Ottumwa native, served as a radar navigator on a ...

The Cold War's nuclear brinksmanship involved a strategy that demanded ... and fallout spreading to an even wider area. The B ...

It was the spring of 1953, the Cold War was nearing its peak and the ... It was also the destination of a B-52 bomber that crashed into sea ice, releasing radioactive material into Baffin Bay.

After two planes collided, three hydrogen bombs hit a Spanish village, and one fell into the sea nearby. Two years later, ...

In the last few months that have passed, there have been several events which have stirred the void in the power struggle of Afghanistan.