During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told ...

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Newly released government papers have shed light on Britain’s vulnerability at the height of the Cold War. The documents ...

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The name Jumpseat was first revealed in a 1986 book by the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the Soviet Union’s 1983 ...

TU 95 GettyImages 1139948302 USAF Interim Archives NATO air planners looking east during the Cold War faced a vast, ...

He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

A Netflix documentary revisits the hockey game at the 1980 Olympics in which the American underdogs beat the Soviets.

A pioneering Cold War-era spy plane sits at the entrance to CIA headquarters, prompting a painstaking effort to preserve an aircraft that once flew 80,000 feet above Soviet missile sites.

At around 28,000 tons Russia’s Kirov Class is the largest and most heavily armed surface combatant in the World. Admiral Nakhimov, has recently emerged from a decade-long and hugely expensive moderniz ...

Explore the enduring legacy of the MiG-21, from its Cold War origins to its lasting influence on aviation.