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 ...

This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

A 1956 police raid of a Pacifica bar, resulting in the arrest of many LGBTQ+ people, became a playbook for state repression ...