A little-known weapon from the past has resurfaced on the battlefield in Ukraine. Its reappearance is raising new questions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the late 1960s, a top-secret Soviet program to sneak nuclear weapons around U.S. early warning radars was mistaken for a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story… In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, ...

This past October, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia successfully tested an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) capable of decimating coastal cities. The weapon is the most recent ...

The Kinzhal has seen limited operational service in Ukraine, but it is still unclear if it lives up to the Kremlin’s hype.

On behalf of the National Research Council’s Committee on the Review of Research Proposals for Cooperation with Former Soviet Biological Weapons Personnel and Institutes, I am pleased to transmit the ...

The Russia-Ukraine war is typically framed as a contest of drones and advanced electronics; however, older technology is playing an equally important role. Soviet-era equipment such as T-72 tanks, PKM ...

After the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, Ukraine gained independence, its own constitution and international recognition. It also inherited a massive Soviet nuclear stockpile — some 1,900 ...

As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines. By C.J. Chivers This story was reported over the course ...