Charlie MacVean, a submarine commander revered by the U.S. Navy for the daring spy missions he carried out against the Soviet ...

In January 2017, the CIA released a large number of newly-declassified documents about information collected on the Soviet ...

The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it ...

Territorial concessions used to be common after wars. The formation of the UN after WWII was meant to put an end to this.

In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft out to lunar distances (though not around the Moon) even if navigation system ...

On 6 February 2025, China’s State Council, working with the Ministry of Education, issued a decree considered historic and ...

Welcome back to This Week in History. This week’s column is significantly gloomier, but nonetheless important in today’s world as the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues. Essentially, ...

While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before resuming again.

The legendary 1980 "Miracle on Ice" hockey team moved closer to receiving Congressional Gold Medals on Monday as the House passed the "Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act." ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz assured Poland's newly-minted President Karol Nawrocki of his country's full solidarity in ...