A large area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was vacated as a result of the accident that shocked the world in 1986 was called the "exclusion zone". At that time, Chernobyl and its ...

Life in the Soviet Union was filled with strange contradictions ration cards and black market jeans, communal apartments, and ...

A recent study shows that Russian attitudes toward the U.S. and other Western countries have shifted. Many are evidently ...

Social media images suggest that China is working on a ground effect vehicle – a kind of hovercraft that skims over the waves ...

The former White House aide recently returned to her roots, advising Britain on defense and taking a role at Durham ...

India's longest-serving fighter aircraft, the MiG-21 was originally developed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the ...

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 ...

From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

The Cold War prompted many bizarre plans—one British idea involved using live chickens to maintain nuclear landmines.

Unfortunately, America’s first Broken Arrow wouldn’t be its last. To date, the U.S. Military has had 32 nuclear weapons ...

Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...