From 1951 to 1959, the FBI and Air Force ran Operation Washtub, a covert program that trained bush pilots, trappers, hunters and miners to operate as covert agents if Soviet paratroopers ever landed ...

Among the materials handed over is a 14-page memorandum penned by Igor Kurchatov, which sheds light on the strategic decision-making behind uranium enrichment methods ...

The Kremlin sits on Borovitsky Hill, rising above the Moscow River in the center of the city. Its first white-stone walls and ...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth wants members of the media to make a “pledge” before they can continue covering he Pentagon. This “Soviet”-style media “pledge” — as MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host Joe ...

Putin Is in Tajikistan for Meetings With Leaders of Ex-Soviet Leaders MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin began a state visit Wednesday in Tajikistan, a three-day trip that includes a ...

Once a global superpower rivaling the United States, the Soviet Union crumbled in just 70 years. Economic failure, political unrest, and a people desperate for change brought it down. 65-year-old ...

Ne’eman is an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. When it comes to developmental disability, the Kennedy legacy is as storied as ...

The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...

Ukrainian defense forces destroyed a giant radio telescope in Crimea, a powerful planetary transmitter once used to support deep space missions and METI—the attempt to message extraterrestrial ...

Charlie MacVean, a submarine commander revered by the U.S. Navy for the daring spy missions he carried out against the Soviet Union during the Cold War era, died of natural causes in San Diego on Sept ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...