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The SR-71 Blackbird Was Built to Outrun Soviet Air Defenses
The SR-71 Blackbirds were used in intelligence-gathering operations over the Soviet Union and Vietnam. A s Washington and ...
Unredacted JFK Files Reveal Details of 'Most Valuable Defector' in Cold War
Details regarding Anatoliy Golitsyn have been unredacted in the latest release of files about the assassination of President ...
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Russia’s Typhoon-class Submarine Is Now a Museum
The submarine’s massive size and quiet operation—owing to advanced sound-dampening technologies—made it a formidable ghost in ...
The true end of the Cold War.
In Soviet Russia, domains will no longer register you — or at least they probably won’t, starting in 2030. So if you’ve been ...
JFK files provide inside look at CIA’s shadowy Cold War history
In May 1958, the CIA’s Far East Division hatched a plan: recruit an attractive white woman to extract information from the ...
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Operation JESUITS: A Microhistory of Soviet State Security in Post-WWII Lithuania
Filip Kovacevic chronicles a previously unpublicized operation by the Soviet Lithuanian state security service targeting a Jesuit priest in Berlin and his contacts in Lithuania between 1945 and 1954.
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Infographic | Mikhail Gorbachev's Rise to Power
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Crimea has been a battleground and a playground. Why it's coveted by both Russia and Ukraine
Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since ...
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Trump is throwing away America’s Cold War victory
That was the holy grail of Soviet leaders, from Joseph Stalin to Leonid Brezhnev, during the Cold War. But the multi-generational, bipartisan leadership of American presidents from Harry Truman to ...