The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.

During the Cold War, military secrets were at a premium, so when a Russian pilot decided to defect with his MiG 25, it was a ...

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The United States opened the nuclear era in July 1945 with the test of a 20-kiloton atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in ...

Since 1949, NATO has been preparing to defend Western Europe from a Russian attack. Until 1989 Russia had massed several hundred thousand troops in East Germany along with several thousand tanks, most ...