The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...

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

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

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

Two men surreptitiously met for a half-hour 80 years ago on a downtown bridge over t River before driving into the hills of Santa Fe. One of the men gave the other a sealed envelope containing the ...

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

This Cold War outpost concealed more than submarines—it hosted a devastating eruption that cooled the planet nearly 200 years ...

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

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

Popular artists “on the bone” included Ella Fitzgerald and Elvis Presley, whose jazz and rock ’n’ roll recordings, to the ears of many Soviet citizens, represented freedom and self-expression.