The Cold War was a period of intense competition between superpowers, with each side trying to outdo the other in variou ...

A newly declassified CIA report has uncovered a chilling Cold War-era incident in which Soviet soldiers were allegedly turned to stone by extraterrestrial beings. The top secret 250-page KGB ...

As the 1980s dawned, the Japan Engineer District (JED) had firmly established itself as a cornerstone of the U.S. military’s ...

Stanislav Petrov was born on September 7, 1939, in Vladivostok, Russia. His family was military—his father was a fighter pilot in World War II, and his mother was a nurse.

The War Zone, an online military magazine, notes that while nuclear-armed air-to-air missiles were part of the Soviet Union's ...

Commander "Buster" Crabb disappeared during a visit to the UK by Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev. In 2006, a BBC reporter read the files that detailed his secret mission.

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