In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, during, and after the Cold War reconnaissance ...

It’s obvious, but no less grim for it, that Britain is in decline. We’ve known for years that our wages have been stagnant, that inflation is rising even as growth stalls, that our towns and cities ...

Their slice-of-life memories are heart-warming and a stark reminder of the arbitrary cruelty of the Soviet Union, even in the relatively becalmed early 1970s when the terror of Stalin had given way to ...

Throughout the Cold War, military planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain built weapons designed to deter the unthinkable. Yet several of those systems came dangerously close to coming active and ...

This difficult peace between America and Cuba covering 13 presidencies has been maintained on the island through the presidencies of JF Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy ...

Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before Russia started pushing migrants across the two countries’ roughly 830-mile ...

Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "In 2014, a Russian sound engineer named Leonid Vorobyev decided to give himself an unusual 60th birthday present. Instead ...

A Dutchman, he was considered the best player outside the Soviet Union for two decades, although he described himself as ...

Cantor Elena Zarkh immigrated to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union in 1979, settled in Los Angeles, earned acceptance to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and got ordained.

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki exposed America’s new political weapon, Stalin moved fast to erase the imbalance and protect Soviet ambitions in Europe. Espionage inside the Manhattan Project, ruthless ...

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 ...