The Cold War secrets behind a butterfly sanctuary
On a windswept hillside in the Mendip Hills, butterflies now drift between wildflowers at Westbury Beacon nature reserve. It ...
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I took a Soviet sleeper train to a little visited country - it was a bargain
The 'Friendship' train links Romania and Moldova, and offers a glimpse into their past, as well as a curious ...
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Does Trump want Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, what has Kyiv said?
During a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, Trump said the best way for Kyiv to ...
Mint Primer | Sunita Williams’ return: Is space travel so tricky?
In one of the most politicized and closely-followed space missions, Sunita Williams, an astronaut of Indian descent, spent ...
Women In Space: The Ones Who Paved the Way
With NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and her crewmate Butch Wilmore returning to Earth on Tuesday after nine months in space, ...
Russian cosmonauts became the only people to die in space after spending 23 days orbiting Earth
Soviet Russia's Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died on their return to Earth ...
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Why the US military has cared about climate change since the Cold War
In this commentary, the author examines how the U.S. military sees climate change as a threat in itself and a threat ...
How did nine hikers end up dead, burnt and radioactive in the Soviet mountains?
The hikers were found dead outside their tent. Some barefoot. Some naked. Some radioactive. All outside in the darkness of remote Russia, then the USSR, in 1959. Their leader, Igor Dyatlov, 23, an ...
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P-51 Mustang: An American Icon
The combination of speed, range, and armament made the P-51 Mustang one of the most versatile platforms of the Second World ...
The US military has cared about climate change since the dawn of the Cold War – for good reason
During the Cold War, the US poured support into Arctic military outposts and climate research amid fears of a Russian ...