Norway's proximity to the USSR in the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases.

On March 29, 1951, controversial trial came to a close with a guilty verdict for three defendants accused of espionage.

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

The ornate double barrel weapon was one of two handed over by the Russian dictator during his unprecedented state visit to ...

The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and anti-satellite (ASAT) warfare. The MiG-105 “Spiral” was a product 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 ...

Away from the grueling land battles and devastating airstrikes, the Ukraine war has from its outset had a naval element. Soon ...

As top US officials describe Europe as "freeloaders", European leaders and policy-makers are said to be "sick to the stomach" ...

The villagers of Uummannaq were given just four days to leave their homes. It was the spring of 1953, the Cold War was nearing its peak and the United States had set its sights on this remote ...

Archival photograph from June 26, 1963, of then US President John F. Kennedy in the streets of Berlin, Germany. // Photo: EFE ARCHIVE/STF The contradictory interpretations sparked by the 64,000 ...