The year is 1983. It’s two years before Mikhail Gorbachev will come to power in the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan is president of the U.S., the Cold War is again heating up, I am in high school ...

Audra Plepytė reflected on her experience as ambassador and stressed Trump's cooperation with the Baltic States in her final ...

The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for the US, whose leaders have been in power for decades.

By April 1983, Samantha Smith, now 10, was worried as Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union raised the threat of nuclear confrontation. Primary Menu Sections.

Soviet Media's Portrait of the United States. This CIA video briefing from 1986 depicts how Soviet state-run media portrayed America. In 2011, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Information ...

How the MiG-25 perplexed the United States The Soviet Union kept the Foxbat a secret before revealing it to the public at the 1967 October Revolution airshow.

In October 1962 our world came very close to a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. It is now known as ...

D uring the Cold War, which lasted from roughly 1947 to 1991, several notable Soviet citizens defected to the United States. Each defection was a victory of sorts in the war of ideological ...

When the United States and Soviet Union Fought It Out Over Fashion The Russians may have been winning the space race in the 1950s, but they couldn’t hold a candle to the sophistication of ...

The Soviet Union answered with something much more horrifying, the Tsar Bomba. This bomb blew the United States out of the water. Its yield was five times that of the B53 at 50 megatons.

This CIA video briefing from 1986 depicts how Soviet state-run media portrayed America. In 2011, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Information Management Services declassified over 200 documents ...