This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. What was known as the “space race” began in April 1961.

LVIV, Ukraine—Vladimir Putin has consistently used the oppression of Jews to justify his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While countless Ukrainian cities are burned to the ground, and civilian ...

Many believed that perhaps the Soviet Union would ultimately triumph in the Space Race to the Moon. But while NASA’s Apollo Program carefully planned and prepared for a meticulous mission, the Soviets ...

Spare, bleak and devastating, HBO's "Chernobyl" captures a moment during the waning years of the Cold War when the Soviet Union experienced a nuclear disaster, then tried to cover up the extent of the ...

In October 1960, a rushed Soviet missile test triggered a catastrophic explosion that killed over a hundred people and was concealed from the world for decades. Drawing on declassified records and ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A reactor failure on a K-19 nuclear sub in 1961 ended up killing several crew members due to radiation poisoning. It was a horrifying episode that ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Sophia Arkadiyivna remembers when the Soviet Union built the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1977, just 20 miles from the village where she served as mayor. After years of atomic ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The giant spy ship’s sad history is a window into the vast, sophisticated and highly secret machinations of Cold War espionage—machinations that sometimes didn’t ...