Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England. He was a double agent who helped change the course of the ...

Details regarding Anatoliy Golitsyn have been unredacted in the latest release of files about the assassination of President ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

The Kirov class, originally built in the Cold War to showcase Soviet naval power ... three times larger than the U.S. Arleigh Burke-Class destroyer and comparable in size to the Japanese Izumo ...

Pepsi's historic deal with the Soviet Union involved exchanging soda for vodka and later acquiring Soviet warships, marking a ...

In 1985, an ailing solar observation satellite in orbit over 300 miles above the Earth was the target of a United States Air ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

One by one, Communist governments loyal to Moscow seized power in Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.