However, its conceptual innovations, engineering challenges, and historical context offer a fascinating glimpse into the Soviet Union’s aspirations for interplanetary travel. Spearheaded by the OKB-1 ...

Originally designed to defend Soviet skies from American bombers and spy planes, the MiG-31 combined brute speed, long-range ...

The Ekranoplan or the “Caspian Sea Monster” ultimately proved too difficult to make practical for the Soviet Navy.

The 1985 film “The Falcon and the Snowman” chronicled the real-life story of two Palos Verdes men who sold United States secrets to the Soviets during the Cold War. From drug deals to espionage to ...

I N THE DEPTHS of the cold war, American spooks and generals came to suspect that the nuclear-weapons club was about to gain ...

Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment.

Even more Top Secret than the Lockheed SR-71, the D-21 drone was a promising Cold War idea that could have eliminated the need for manned overflights, ...

The MiG-15 is one of the oldest and most successful aircraft produced by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The MiG-15 introduced swept wings for the first time for the Soviets, enabling the ...

The Cold War ended more than three decades ago, when West Germany and East Germany unified and communism collapsed across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. NATO has since expanded to 14 ...

The 1983 US-Soviet "war scare" is one of the most controversial episodes of the Cold War. Now we finally know it was also one of the most dangerous, thanks to a February 1990 report published by ...

“When he came to power, the Cold War had gone on for nearly 40 years and communism for even longer, with devastating consequences. Few high-level Soviet officials had the courage to admit that ...

Historians pinpoint the Cold War as starting with the Truman Doctrine in 1947 and ending with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. It's likely the U.S. is going to be entering a prolonged ...