The investment in Biopreparat reflected a Soviet calculus that biological agents could provide asymmetrical leverage against the West. In the depths of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched a ...

Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, has branded the decision to withdraw strategic nuclear weapons from the country after the collapse of the Soviet Union a mistake. Quote ...

The Museum of Strategic Missile Forces tells the story of how Ukraine dismantled its nuclear weapons arsenal after ...

Russia and Ukraine have expanded their use of TM-62 anti-tank landmines, adapting them into drone-dropped munitions and ...

History Channel tells the story of two flawed secret weapons programs of the Soviet Union. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union boasted of the superiority of its weapons. A look at the inner workings ...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Former Soviet Union weapons scientists may help Yellowstone National Park biologists develop a brucellosis vaccine for bison. A group of Russian and Ukrainian scientists spent ...

In the spring of 1987, Mikhail Taratuta of the North American Division of Radio Moscow told me of his concerns with President Gorbachev's moves to introduce glasnost and perestroika to the Soviet ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** The DShK started its combat ...