Deseret News archives: Soviet Union traded a pilot for a spy on this day in 1962
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The big trade in 1962 happened on Glienicke ...
Spies or Scapegoats: Does New Evidence Exonerate the Rosenbergs?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death for spying for the Soviet Union. Decades later, we’re still grappling with what ...
The New Yorker5d
The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...
Space on MSN8d
A red moon: Will the next 'Sputnik Moment' be made in China?
Why being first to return to the moon matters.
Immigrants sue ICE over alleged ‘Russian Detention & Deterrence Scheme’
“In violation of a longstanding [Department of Homeland Security] directive precluding detention of asylum seekers except in ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists2d
An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...
China's Xi accepts invitation to attend Moscow's Victory Day in May, TASS reports
Chinese President Xi Jinping has accepted Russia's invitation to attend the commemorations of the Soviet victory over Nazi ...
On This Day: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.