There have been four iterations of the Delta-class submarines, designed to serve as a key element of the Soviet Union’s ...

The Manhattan Project spy met with his handler Harry Gold on June 2, 1945, to deliver him the plans for the plutonium bomb.

Back in the USSR of the 1950s and 60s, hipsters, desperate for decadent rock ’n’ roll, cut illegal records using X-ray film.

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound ...

If the Soviet Navy’s base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, had been fully established before the Nixon administration intervened to stop ...

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural ...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but ...

Around 3 million ethnic Germans who emigrated from the former Soviet Union live in Germany today. Many have become prosperous ...