On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj. Arthur D. "Nick" Nicholson. He was the last American killed ...

Poland is preparing a reparations claim against Russia for atrocities committed during Soviet dominance of the country, ...

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.

Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union waged a relentless propaganda campaign aimed at undermining the United States both ...

Pumping out warplanes by the tens of thousands, the USSR manufactured and deployed an astonishing number of military aircraft in its sixty-nine years of existence. With the defeat of Hitler, a tense ...

A Cold War-era spacecraft will come crashing down to Earth this weekend… but nobody quite knows where. The Soviet Union’s “Kosmos 482” probe launched in 1972, bound for Venus, but suffered a rocket ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in ...

For the first time in over 50 years, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers, the US and Russia.

At around 28,000 tons Russia’s Kirov Class is the largest and most heavily armed surface combatant in the World. Admiral ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well as a metaphor for ...