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I N THE DEPTHS of the cold war, American spooks and generals came to suspect that the nuclear-weapons club was about to gain ...
The rousing success of a Soviet speedway team at a Norwich track helped create unity at the height of the Cold War, a ...
When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...
Is Indy’s battle with Soviet mind readers totally fiction? Not quite. This extended breakdown links real government ...
The evolution of Soviet VTOL aircraft tells a story of technological daring, strategic necessity, and Cold War rivalry.
Longtime Colorado College political science professor and dean David Dewees Finley died in his home surrounded by loved ones ...
War has a funny way of turning wild ideas into serious government projects. In the chaos of World War II and the paranoia of ...
The Ekranoplan or the “Caspian Sea Monster” ultimately proved too difficult to make practical for the Soviet Navy.
The Cold War prompted many bizarre plans—one British idea involved using live chickens to maintain nuclear landmines.
When you attend “Letters from a Soviet Prison,” you will step into a gripping real-life story of Cold War espionage.
Charlie English provides a fascinating account of how the agency smuggled Camus, Orwell and Vonnegut behind the Iron Curtain ...
Step into a gripping real-life story of Cold War espionage by attending “Letters from a Soviet Prison,” a presentation by Francis Gary Powers Jr. at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum in ...