During the darkest days of the Cold War, the US intelligence community was alarmed by a startling discovery: the Soviet Union bombarded the United States Embassy in Moscow with microwaves. Some officials feared that this was an attempt to harm American diplomats and perhaps even confuse their minds.…

The head of Space X and Tesla Elon Musk bypassed Jeff Bezos in the list of the richest people in the world and sent the founder of Amazon a giant statue with the number 2 and a silver medal, reports Tjournal. On September 28, Elon Musk took first place in the ranking of the most ...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov believes that relations between Russia and the United States are now worse than they were during the Cold War. The diplomat expressed this opinion in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, writes TASS. According to him, Moscow and Washington are now ...

The themes of the confrontation between intelligence and punitive psychiatry, at first glance, seem to be little compatible, and yet they have at least one thing in common - both, alas, were a characteristic feature of the era that we know from history as the Cold War. So…

On July 7, 1983, ten-year-old American schoolgirl Samantha Smith flew to the USSR. A little ambassador of peace, a snowdrop of the Cold War, a propaganda tool - whatever you call this girl, who changed the way the citizens of two huge states look at each other. Samantha lived only thirteen...

In the United States, former intelligence officer Irving Isaacson, who called himself “the first spy of the Cold War,” died at the age of 102. Isaacson died March 28 at a hospice facility in Auburn, Maine, his family said. A graduate of Harvard Law School, on the eve of World War II...

Translated by Colby Itkowitz for the Washington Post. Anastasia Kurteeva worries that a new Cold War may begin. She's scared. It is scary that the growing tension between the United States and Russia will make it difficult to move freely between the two countries and that it will be more difficult for her parents to travel from Moscow. ...

On September 14, it became known that Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet officer, died in his apartment in the Moscow Region, who in 1983 could have given the order to launch an atomic strike on the territory of the United States, but, having understood the situation, did not do this and, in fact, saved the world from nuclear war. Petrov was ...

At the height of the Cold War, using eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes as cover, the CIA spent $ 350 million trying to steal a Soviet submarine. Writer Josh Dean details one of the most amazing covert operations in American history in his new book, Capture of the K-129, this book ...

In late July, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that 755 employees of US diplomatic facilities in Russia would be displaced. It is not yet clear what this means for long-term relations between the two countries. And what does that mean - at least in part - for the core American team ...