The Tupolev Tu-22 started as the Soviet Union’s bold attempt at supersonic strategic dominance. But in 1986, it found ...

The Soviets believed that this attack would only work if the missiles were launched within one minute. If they waited even ...

In a few days, Russia will celebrate the Day of Mourning — the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and the attack of the ...

Russia’s 2014 occupation of Crimea should have been a turning point. Instead, it became just another example of Western rhetoric without resolve. President Barack Obama spoke forcefully about ...

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F.

Celebrated violinist Mikhail Brat’s move to Canada from the former Soviet Union wasn’t just Canada’s gain and that country’s ...

This week on Who What When, we look at the Cold War era with questions about the geopolitical conflict between the United ...