New Mexican' covered fallout from 1945 Santa Fe meeting where Manhattan Project spy passed along plutonium bomb plans to his ...

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

The Manhattan Project spy met with his handler Harry Gold on June 2, 1945, to deliver him the plans for the plutonium bomb.

There have been four iterations of the Delta-class submarines, designed to serve as a key element of the Soviet Union’s nuclear deterrence strategy.

The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip ...

Back in the USSR of the 1950s and 60s, hipsters, desperate for decadent rock ’n’ roll, cut illegal records using X-ray film.

The triptych was purchased for the Louvre by the Society of Friends of the Louvre from the private collection of New York ...

Around 3 million ethnic Germans who emigrated from the former Soviet Union live in Germany today. Many have become prosperous ...

Who separates the Free from the Oppressed? Who guarantees our God-given rights? That thin red line has always been trodden by ...

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound ...

Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second planet from the sun in 1972 but never got there; its rocket suffered an ...