Titanium is fantastically expensive, and difficult to fabricate, relative to other materials—meaning it was only ever ...

Finally, on April 15, 1952, the first YB-52 took off for its maiden flight, with a tandem cockpit similar to that of the B-47 ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 constituent states of the Communist empire, Russia was always the pre-eminent ...

This episode of The Big Picture focuses on the secret construction of an air base near Thule, #Greenland in the early 1950s. Built during the Cold War, the base was to provide the U.S. a home for long ...

The first decades following the Russian Revolution saw enormous changes in women’s social role, but early promises of ...

The fall of Venezuela’s socialist regime marks a generational turning point akin to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, according to an energy expert who says the scenes unfolding there echo the ...

What exactly was the Space Race? Why did we care so much? The Space Race grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most powerful countries after World War II. For a ...

Every year in late December, my childhood home transformed into a vision of American bliss. We’d gather to ornament a tree, drape string lights around the house, and sit down to an elaborate feast.