Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's war on Ukraine has deepened a divide between the former Soviet nation and Europe. Before the end of the Cold War, the ...
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The Soviet Union built a real-life Death Star... it was designed to fight in space
A space station armed with a laser cannon. Secret Cold War missions. A Soviet project so ambitious it sounded like science ...
The Soviet collapse in 1991 was so sudden and comprehensive that it came to seem inevitable. New work by historians of the USSR asks whether the system’s crisis could have ended in reform of its ...
Some misunderstandings can be remedied by a simple explanation. Others end friendships or marriages. The most frightening miscommunications are those between nuclear-armed superpowers. In October, ...
In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, training the crews for the upcoming invasion of Japan. In the spring of 1945, ...
In 1990, National Geographic went to the Soviet Union to report on one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century: the shrinking of the Aral Sea. From the rusting deck of the boat he ...
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