In the 1950s, the U.S. military seriously considered detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon as part of Project A119 a Cold War ...

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A steel gray fuselage with a bright red star painted on the side tail was about as ornate as the Soviets got when painting ...

Igor Gouzenko was a lowly Soviet cipher clerk when he turned the world order upside down in 1945. Nobody could have predicted the espionage hysteria his defection would unleash.

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The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?