Thirty-seven years ago, I traveled behind the Iron Curtain to document the deadly pollution in the collapsing Soviet Union ...

Vozrozhdeniya Island was a major test site for lethal viruses, plague bacteria, and anthrax spores.

In 1990, National Geographic went to the Soviet Union to report on one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th ...

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal ...

In 1974, a top-secret Soviet proposal nearly put a nuclear-powered, self-concealing moon base on the lunar surface before ...

[Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary computer, was developed at Moscow State University in 1958. Its troubled and ...

When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was created in 1917, many academic economists, including those in the United States, believed or claimed to believe that socialism—which entails ...

Yuri Gagarin never landed inside his spacecraft, and the Soviet Union spent a decade burying the truth. What really happened during Vostok 1's chaotic reentry was far more dangerous than the world was ...

The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the ...

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...

Deep inside an abandoned mine in the Krusne hory (Ore Mountains) of northwest Czech Republic, Jakub Kristek's radiation meter crackles with urgency as he picks up a fist-sized rock. "Uranium ore," he ...