Can Kazakhstan Bury Its Soviet, Nuclear Past?
KURCHATOV, Kazakhstan—In the remote steppe grasslands of Kazakhstan where, decades ago, Soviet military scientists detonated 456 nuclear bombs, tourists from around the world can don white…
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How Did Negotiations to Persuade Ukraine to Give Up Soviet Nuclear Weapons On Its Soil Succeeded?
This paper draws on primary and scholarly sources from the soviet era which convinced the Ukrainian leadership to give up their nuclear arsenal which they inherited from the Soviet…
Foxtrot: The Soviet submarine that was just inches from the start of a nuclear war
Walled in history as the submarine that almost started World War III, the Foxtrot-class is one of the most productive and long-lived submarine lines in the USSR.
The Soviet Union's first attack…
Akula: The ultra-quiet Soviet submarine that almost wasn’t
The Akula-class nuclear-powered attack submarines are a stunning and remarkably long-lived example of the late Soviet Union's single-minded drive to keep up, if not outperform, its Cold War…
The people’s subway: the Soviet Union’s ornate metros in pictures
The first Soviet workers to board the Moscow metro stations in 1935 waited on platforms that looked more like "palace halls" and drove in cars that, according to satirists Ilya Ilf and Evgeny…