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In January 2017, the CIA released a large number of newly-declassified documents about information collected on the Soviet ...
Charlie MacVean, a submarine commander revered by the U.S. Navy for the daring spy missions he carried out against the Soviet ...
Some of you reading this may have been around long enough to remember the end of the Cold War, which came to its official ...
With artists from 23 countries, hopes for a billion-plus viewers and a generous sprinkle of glitter, Russia hosts Intervision ...
The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it ...
Welcome back to This Week in History. This week’s column is significantly gloomier, but nonetheless important in today’s world as the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues. Essentially, ...
While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before ...
On 6 February 2025, China’s State Council, working with the Ministry of Education, issued a decree considered historic and ...
In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft ...
Operation Beluga was not your typical Cold War covert ops. It involved sending an ice-breaker and blasting classical music at ...
Ukraine's "Tur" reconnaissance unit claimed to have discovered Nazi detonators inside a Russian ammunition depot, posting ...