One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold ...
The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...
It was years in the making, but when it actually came, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 occurred suddenly. In the ...
Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.
A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March 1972 ...
The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history. Although the Cold War ...