The M163 Vulcan Air Defense System played a critical role in bridging the gap between World War II-era anti-aircraft guns and modern missile-based air defense systems.

Designed in the 1960s for Soviet frogmen, the SPP-1 underwater pistol could fire four steel darts underwater. It’s strange, deadly, and still in use.

The Cold War came with a plethora of challenges for offensive and defensive weapons. HARP was able to launch projectiles high into the atmosphere; over 110 miles (580,800 feet).

The following devices are known to have been used or developed for use by spies during the Cold War. Lipstick Pistol An example of the KGB-issued, single-shot device was discovered at a U.S ...

Bohdan Stashinsky, one of the KGB's hired guns, was known to have murdered two Ukrainian anti-Soviet activists, Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera, in the 1950s with a gun that sprayed cyanide in their ...