During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told ...

Soviet propaganda posters were designed to be unavoidable, constantly reshaped to match the state’s shifting priorities. In a ...

A pioneering Cold War-era spy plane sits at the entrance to CIA headquarters, prompting a painstaking effort to preserve an ...

"Everyone was equal," the kerchiefed babushka of Eli from Russia — a YouTuber who documents everyday life and regional ...

Listen and subscribe to our Curious Minnesota podcast:Apple Podcasts | Spotify On an abandoned Air Force station a few miles ...

During the height of the Cold War, an invisible invasion haunted Soviet skies. American spy balloons drifted thousands of miles into USSR territory, nearly impossible to stop. In response, Soviet ...

The name Jumpseat was first revealed in a 1986 book by the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the Soviet Union’s 1983 ...

This week, the Kremlin hit a grim milestone in its ongoing war in Ukraine. On January 11, 2026, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against ...

In late August 1989 I travelled to Czechoslovakia by train via East Germany to witness the 21st anniversary of the 1968 Prague Spring. People spoke about the beauty of Prague but few Irish people had ...

When you wish upon a czar. Move over, Mickey and Minnie — one Moscow politician is plotting to turn his war-mongering and ...

Three years. 10 months. 18 days. As of January 12, that’s the amount of time that’s elapsed since Russia launched its all-out assault on Ukraine: Europe’s largest, bloodiest conflict war since World ...

President Donald Trump has said the U.S. would seize Greenland “one way or the other” for security purposes, but during the Cold War, the strategic island was a de facto American military outpost as a ...