In 1983, Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union’s Air Defense Forces, trusted his gut and averted a global nuclear catastrophe.

On the night of September 26, 1983, Petrov was watch officer in charge of the Soviet Union's recently completed US-KS nuclear launch warning satellite network, known as "Oko" ...

Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was one of the largest military campaigns in history, and it led to staggering Soviet losses. However, despite these immense ...

Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer whose calm under pressure saved the world from an atomic war, has been confirmed dead at 77. He actually died earlier this year, on May 19.

The officer, Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, was in charge of the Soviet Union’s early warning system when the system wrongly signaled the launch of a U.S. Minuteman intercontinental ballistic ...

Throughout the 1970s, Victor Sheymov rose quickly through the hierarchy of the KGB, the spy agency of the Soviet Union. He was assigned to the Eighth Chief Directorate, perhaps the KGB’s most ...

Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade at Red Square on May 9, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Guests on the Russia state TV discussed the Soviet Union's achievements ...

Stanislav Petrov, a Russian hero of the Cold War, died in May at his home outside of Moscow. However, his death went unmarked until this month. Petrov, 77, was largely unheralded in his own country, ...

The Soviet Union, as former Soviet officer and later Russian historian Dmitri Volkogonov once put it, was hatched by a bunch of vicious but ineffectual intellectuals who had no idea how to govern ...