With the threat of war looming, the Soviet Union utilized machine-gun armed tractors as reconnaissance vehicles. With assistance from British engineering, these obsolete vehicles contributed to the ...

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

The US Navy vacated the Mahanian world of sea battle at almost precisely the historical instant China entered it. A ...

The military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are ...

The documents released Thursday reveal Kennedy met with the CIA to share his observations following a 1955 trip to the Soviet ...

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

Behind the Iron Curtain, millions were imprisoned in Soviet gulags—forced labor camps that fueled Stalin’s rise and kept the ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...

When Republicans strategize about how to deal with China today, many of them point to President Ronald Reagan’s confrontational approach toward the Soviet Union as a model to emulate. H. R. McMaster, ...

Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago Press Beginning in the 1940s, the Soviets ...