In April 1977, the Soviet Northern Fleet launched a massive naval drill—a full display of Cold War might—but they were being ...

In November 1983, the US, Soviet Union and the rest of the world were teetering closer than ever on the edge of nuclear war. A NATO military exercise had spooked the Soviets, who thought the exercise ...

Russia just pulled a relic straight out of the Cold War vaults and sent it to the frontlines of Ukraine: the Ladoga armored vehicle. Designed in the 1980s not for combat but for shuttling Soviet ...

In 1944, legendary Hollywood film director (and then-U.S. Army Major) WIlliam Wyler released "The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress," a 45-minute documentary showing what real air combat ...

As the 1980s dawned, the Japan Engineer District (JED) had firmly established itself as a cornerstone of the U.S. military’s presence in Asia. But in the two decades that followed, marked by ...

Editor’s Note: The CNN Original Series “Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game” examines the tenuous global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg Gordievsky ...