These psychic experiments began in 1924, when Gleb Bokii, head of the special section of the Soviet secret police, opened a ...

The Soviet MiG-15 became one of the most feared fighter jets of the Cold War after shocking American pilots during the Korean ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GettyImages 109890493 William McElligott Getty Images 2 Pumping out warplanes by the tens of thousands, the USSR manufactured and ...

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.

Following the atomic bombings of Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union accelerated efforts to close the growing nuclear gap with the United States. After achieving its first ...

When communist Soviet leaders needed a luxury car, they turned to American designs, reverse-engineering U.S.-made sedans to create their own elite limousines.

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 ...