Chernobyl was not just an industrial accident; it was a glimpse of what our technology can unleash when control slips from our grasp ...

“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few ...

If I mention nuclear reactor accidents, you’d probably think of Three Mile Island, Fukushima, or maybe Chernobyl (or, now, Chornobyl). But there have been others that, for whatever reason, ...

The most shocking moment in A House of Dynamite isn't the missile heading to the U.S., but is the death of Jared Harris' ...

Kathryn Bigelow's House of Dynamite — about the United States government's protocols in the face of a nuclear attack — prompted a response from no less than the Pentagon. It is hardly the first ...

In 1221 on the plains of current-day Turkmenistan lay the city of Merv. The town faced a Mongol besiegement under one of ...

In his new book, writer Mikhail Zygar retraces the last thirty years of the Soviet Union through a gallery of characters, helping us to understand Moscow's present based on the idea that no dictat ...

The rulings came a day before the Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the nation’s biggest food aid ...

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund ...

Director Kathryn Bigelow explores the scenario of a surprise nuclear attack on the U.S. in a controversial cautionary tale ...

Over half a century and around the globe, Laura Mulvey’s influence on thinking about film, through her writing and her own filmmaking practice, has been unparalleled. As she receives a BFI Fellowship, ...

Ahead of his highly-anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Donald Trump said the US will resume ...