When the Soviet Union collapsed on Christmas Day in 1991, a wave of euphoria washed over the West. Barely two years had elapsed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and suddenly, the Cold War was over.

In all the documentaries I have watched on the Cold War, I have been intrigued by these strange operations and projects ...

Belarus is often called “Europe’s last dictatorship” — a country where Soviet symbols still dominate the streets, Lenin ...

The CIA secretly intercepted a Soviet Luna spacecraft in transit and examined it overnight. The agency said the operation ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in ...

The Cold War wasn't actually much of a war at all, as it saw very little actual combat between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two of the world's biggest superpowers, the two were in a nuclear ...

It's 35 years since Helen Sharman boarded a space capsule heading into orbit, all thanks to a job ad that she had stumbled upon.