The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification ...

It is time to complete the consolidation of Defense Special Operations and sensitive activities and refocus them to prevail in the new Cold War with China. In short, it is time to rebuild the OSS—not ...

The KGB’s successor, the Federal Security Service, or FSB, continued to probe our secrets and attempted to recruit agents just as aggressively as the KGB at the height of the Cold War. Moscow marked ...

The very first car produced in Soviet-era Poland after World War II has gone on display near Warsaw after it was tracked down ...

The Kiev-class hybrid aircraft carriers were the Soviet Union’s attempt to counter U.S. naval dominance during the Cold War.

The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed on Christmas Day in 1991, a wave of euphoria washed over the West. Barely two years had elapsed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and suddenly, the Cold War was over.

Join Sheila Fitzpatrick for a discussion of her new book Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War.

Ekranoplans—massive Soviet machines combining elements of ships and planes—were built to be the ultimate coastal transport and military asset. This video explores how they could glide over the water ...

The very first car produced in Soviet-era Poland after World War II went on display Friday near Warsaw after it was tracked down in Finland during decades of searching and acquired after years of ...

During the initial phases of research, the Soviets hoped that the November could be used to sneak up on American naval bases ...