In hindsight, the Cold War might look like nothing more than a dramatic hissy fit between two places with opposing political ...

Hughes was going to do the unthinkable with it: mine manganese nodules right from the ocean floor. So, when the Glomar sailed ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s military intelligence organization (GRU) and its civilian security and intelligence organization (KGB) each sported their own “special purpose” unit and force.

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.

LONDON — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in England, where he ...

A Cold War-era spacecraft will come crashing down to Earth this weekend… but nobody quite knows where. The Soviet Union’s “Kosmos 482” probe launched in 1972, bound for Venus, but suffered a rocket ...

The CIA knew Aldrich Ames was drinking excessively, was prone to extra-marital affairs, lived a lifestyle that was far above his pay as an intelligence officer, and even failed a lie detector test ...

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. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of ...

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 ...