The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

opened up Catholic Church Engineers develop ultra-futuristic battery that dramatically outperforms competition: 'High energy and safe' ...

The 1950s and 1960s were the golden age of space exploration. The U.S. and the Soviet Union were locked in a race to the stars. Rockets, astronauts, and satellites filled the headlines. That obsession ...

A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton ...

Ederlezi recruits Milutin a Slav cosmonaut trained in the newly reformed futuristic Soviet Union and accompanies him with Nimani, a female android programmed to fulfill whatever he desires.

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...