“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

A deadly cloud drifted through the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk in 1979, carrying invisible spores that caused a horrifying outbreak. What really happened in this Cold War bio-weapon disaster?

A new documentary tells the little-known story of the 1941 evacuation of Soviet troops from Estonia which became one of history's largest maritime disasters and left approximately 15,000 dead as the ...

In the early hours of June 26, 1940, the Romanian submarine NMS Delfinul detected five Soviet warships approaching the strategic Port of Constanța. As Romania, now aligned with Nazi Germany ...

As the one saying goes. “Good things come in small packages.” In the military context, one could argue that this truism was ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

Soviet chess world champion Boris Spassky has died at age 88. It was announced by the Russian Chess Federation that regretted the event as a “great loss for Russia”. Spassky held the title of ...

While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its most highly placed moles. By Clay Risen Oleg Gordievsky, who was the ...

NVIDIA has announced a foundation AI model for humanoid robots called NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1, aka GR00T N1. The chip maker announced that this pre-trained AI model is available as open-source.

Last year was one of the worst years for U.S. natural disasters, according to researchers, as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) future remains uncertain. Major disaster ...

MOSCOW — 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 Moscow.