‘Perimeter’ could set loose Russia’s entire nuclear arsenal—even with every leader in Moscow dead.

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Buried beneath the cover of civilian space exploration, the Soviet Union secretly armed an orbital station with a modified aircraft cannon and fired it in space hours before destroying the evidence.

The geopolitical discourse of our times is dominated by a growing multipolarity, unlike 30 years back, when the world was dominated by two superpowers: The United States and the erstwhile USSR. In ...

It was 20 years ago this week that the Soviet Union’s defenders mounted a last-ditch effort to stop the implementation of liberalizing reforms and preserve the USSR. The failure of their “August coup” ...

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The struggle within the International Committee between 1982 and 1986 took place against the backdrop of a deepening crisis in the Soviet Union and its Stalinist regime. The development of this crisis ...

The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was the trusty rearguard of the USSR both in peacetime and in war. It was here that the country's industrial potential was cultivated, nuclear weapons were tested, ...

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