Surprise attacks were their main concern, but they assumed that the existing warning systems and retaliatory capabilities ...

For on that day, the New York Times began publishing top secret ... better known as the Pentagon Papers. After the government said the publication of this material would cause irreparable injury ...

Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the Pentagon said he would try to earn every vote so long as he remained the president-elect ...

Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who exposed the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, has died, aged 92. He died at his home in Kensington, California, of pancreatic cancer, his family said.

In the end, the Senate rejected Tower’s nomination, the first time since 1959 that the chamber had refused to consent to a president’s cabinet nominee. It was shocking, given how clubby the Senate was ...