During the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed the Mil V-12, the largest helicopter ever built, designed to transport ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

Fifty years ago, the Broad Street Bullies took the Soviet Union's Red Army team to task at the Spectrum in South Philly in the midst of the Cold War. A new documentary will tell the story of the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Fifty years after one of the most unforgettable nights in hockey history, a new documentary will bring the story of the Philadelphia Flyers vs. Soviet Central Red Army game of January 11, ...

Between the steelmakers, refineries, meatpackers and transportation industries and the heavy population, the Chicago area was considered a primary target during the Cold War. About 30 Nike missile ...

Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story… In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, ...

The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of an era with the fall of the Iron Curtain, the dissolution of the USSR, and ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

In early February of 1943, Gene Grabeel walks toward a corner of a large, crowded room inside Arlington Hall near Washington, D.C. Around her, clutches of people huddle over tables and quietly rifle ...

What was it like to live at the end of the Cold War? While Francis Fukuyama mulled Kojève, Hegel, and the end of history, a KGB officer in Dresden was lamenting his leaders’ surrender and would later ...

Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.