Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

Let us paint the scene for you. The day is September 1st, 1939, in the Soviet Union, and you're a middle-management engineer working at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory in Ukraine. While a particular ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s military intelligence organization (GRU) and its civilian security and intelligence organization (KGB) each sported their own “special purpose” unit and force.

The U.S. Army is widely known for its helicopter fleet, filled with some of the most advanced helicopters in the world. The Apache and Black Hawk are chief among these, but the fastest helicopter in ...

When the Space Race kicked off in earnest in the 1950s, in some ways it was hard to pin down where sci-fi began and reality ended. As the first artificial satellites began zipping around the Earth, ...

Glowing global tributes have been pouring in for Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30 at the age of 91. As the last Soviet leader, his reforms helped end the Cold War and free Eastern Europe from ...

In the wake of the Second World War, 12 countries from Europe and North America banded together to form an alliance that would keep the hard-won peace in Europe, promote cooperation between them and ...