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 ...

The Museum of Strategic Missile Forces tells the story of how Ukraine dismantled its nuclear weapons arsenal after ...

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.

The Cold War was an unusual time to be alive, with children practicing duck and cover drills in school and apprehension of nuclear weapons. Throughout the 45 years of the Cold War, the United States ...

BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. (KAIT) - The Cold War stands as one of the most significant events in United States and world history. Pavel Palazhchenko was in Blytheville to share his unique perspective on that ...

At the height of the Cold War, as air power became a measure of national survival, a determined Soviet engineer pursued an ...

LONDON — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in England, where he ...

President Jimmy Carter, right, surrounded by journalists after announcing he was lifting the travel ban on Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia, March 9, 1977. AP Photo/file Former President Jimmy ...

Editor’s Note: The CNN Original Series “Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game” examines the tenuous global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg Gordievsky ...