The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...

Roland Lajoie, Army general who helped manage Cold War tensions, dies at 87 An expert on the Soviet military, he implemented a historic program to destroy thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons after ...

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

Soviet Gen. Georgy Zhukov couldn't get Coca-Cola behind the Iron Curtain, so he asked the US to come up with an alternative solution: "white Coke." ...

In late 1944, the European fronts were closing in, and previously separated Allies began to encounter each other on the battlefield. On November 7, 1944, P-38 Lightnings from the 82nd Fighter ...

Lev Dovator, the Soviet-Jewish general who led the Cossack attack on the Nazis in the Rostov district which broke the German offensive and initiated the Nazi retreat along the entire Soviet front ...

Concluding a morning meeting, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev shake hands, in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986.

Lieutenant General David Dragunsky, a Jewish Army officer who is one of the most decorated Soviet heroes of World War II, declared here that “vestiges of anti-Semitism still exist in the Soviet ...

In 1945, Soviet General Sergei Shtemenko told Sergo Beria, whose father had been a feared Soviet secret police chief during the Stalin era, “It was expected that the Americans would abandon a Europe ...

During a storied military career, Roland Lajoie rose to major general, became one of the Army’s leading experts on the Soviet military, and implemented a historic program to destroy thousands of ...

The Soviet general emphatically responded “Nyet!” and resumed a diatribe against the U.S. government in general and Col. Lajoie in particular, according to a confidential Army report. Then ...