The Cold War saw the creation of some truly wild and destructive weapons systems. While the United States and the Soviet ...
And the Soviet Union had been an ally to the West during ... Well, that didnt ring a bell with me because World War II was over and we were not at war with Russia." The editor told him to go ...
responded with a joke that challenged the role of scientists in the Soviet Union. The point of Nedelin's story was clear to Sakharov. The scientists' job was to create the weapons, not to decide ...
Soviet weapons designers strove to surpass the Americans ... it was still three times more potent than all the explosives deployed in World War II combined, including the atomic bombings ...
London sent the Hawker Hurricanes to the Soviet Union to help them fight against Nazi Germany. Residents share memories of their city, before its destruction in Russia's full-scale invasion.