John Diamond

With a major presidential decision approaching, the Pentagon said Tuesday that the cost of building a national missile defense system is rising sharply because of an expanded defensive scheme and...

On the eve of a new millennium, as the nation girded for the most unusual New Year's observance in its history, federal authorities expanded their investigation of an Algerian man...

This was not how it was supposed to be at the end of "The American Century." With the world's strongest economy and a dominant military that can flex its muscle...

Top scientists at the U.S. nuclear weapons labs warned lawmakers Thursday that without test explosions they can't guarantee the reliability of the aging nuclear weapons stockpile. The lab chiefs also...

It was January in Chicago and too cold for anyone, let alone the governor-elect of Illinois, to stand on a Northwest Side pavement chatting about Cuba. So George Ryan, who...