However, its conceptual innovations, engineering challenges, and historical context offer a fascinating glimpse into the ...

The rousing success of a Soviet speedway team at a Norwich track helped create unity at the height of the Cold War, a ...

The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior safety mechanisms. But after a single flight in 1988, the program was shelved.

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

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.

Spanning from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the Cold War wasn’t a traditional war that was fought on battlefields. As a ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

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 ...