many American military and political leaders believed the Soviet Union was closing the gap in the arms race, particularly in the deployment of long-range strategic bombers. The so-called bomber ...

We use unique international data on the publications, citations, and affiliations of mathematicians to examine the impact of a large post-1992 influx of Soviet mathematicians on the productivity of ...

U.S. Army investigators determined that Nicholson’s death was “officially condoned, if not directly ordered” by the Soviet leadership. The Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry ... in the areas their soldiers occupied -- not only in Germany, but also ...

Adam and Ernestine fled Bochnia, hoping to escape the Nazis and moved to Lwów (today Lviv, Ukraine), which was under Soviet occupation. In Soviet-occupied Poland, the Soviet authorities repressed the ...