Strings of radars stretching across Canada were built to give early warnings of Soviet bombers coming over the Arctic. The ...

Readers in this week’s letters have differing views on the news that an RAF station will house jets which can carry nuclear ...

Afghanistan remains on a knife-edge. Looming famine, widespread malnutrition, and the forced repatriation of refugees are signs not of a nation in crisis — but one already collapsed, hollowed out to ...

Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment.

China is reviving an ekranoplan design dubbed the "Bohai Sea Monster," echoing the Soviet "Caspian Sea Monster", a vessel ...

Eighty years have now passed since the guns at last fell silent at the end of World War II. In Europe, hostilities ceased ...

Donald Raleigh's Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the fascinating life stories of the ...

The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

A: China's role in the global fight against fascism has often been undervalued, partly because it was not an industrial power ...