In the early days of Operation Barbarossa, as the German Army surged across the vast expanse of the Soviet Union, they believed nothing could stop their blitzkrieg. But deep within the Russian ...

July 16, 1990, marked a major milestone in Ukraine’s efforts to free itself from Soviet Russian rule. But what actually ...

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

In 1945, as World War II came to a close, tensions simmered beneath the Allied victory raising the question: could the U.S. and U.K. have turned on the Soviet Union and won? This video explores the ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.

China’s ever-increasing missile capability has required US forces to forge a layered approach to countering any aggression in ...

The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

The story of these adventurous pooches is woven into the longer history of the city and its relationship with dogs.

US relationship must rest on mutual respect—not on expectations of alignment or veiled warnings of ‘penalties’ ...

Martin Cruz Smith, who transported readers behind the Iron Curtain in his multifaceted crime novel “Gorky Park,” a Soviet-era blockbuster that topped bestseller lists and kicked off a long-running ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...