For at least a decade, the conventional wisdom has been that direct attempts at regime change by the United States have ended in disaster. And for good reason. In Afghanistan, the very same Taliban ...

The former owner of a Los Angeles pawnshop was sentenced Tuesday to six weeks of community service as part of his probationary sentence for lying to investigators about his connection to stolen Andy ...

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...

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During the Cold War, two physicists became public "opponents" of the Pentagon's antiballistic missile systems. But they kept ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World ...

Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to ...

Eighty-five years after Helsinki welcomed Nazi troops to the country, the Finnish ruling class is once again attempting to ...

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...

Berlin, January 1954: This Soviet information desk at the four-power foreign ministers’ conference doesn’t seem like a particularly good place to go for answers, but in fact, the Eastern bloc — ...

This 1956 image depicts the world record, long-span, glue-laminated timber arches being assembled for a 3,500-seat jai alai fronton in West Palm Beach, Fla. The arches had a clear span of 242.5 ft, a ...

Roland Sejko’s doc “A State Film,” culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman Enver Hoxha, is a fascinating study in the power of image and myth.