Kept secret for decades, a translated Soviet manual details how Communist Party watchdogs ensured sailors would deliver nuclear strikes regardless of the human cost.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Kept secret for 37 years, a Russian-language inventory of Polish munitions reveals exactly how the Soviets managed their satellite's war chest while the West watched the border.
By Constance Bell ·
Kept behind the walls of the Ministry of Defence, this record tracks the Soviet quest for nuclear fusion—a pursuit that could have rendered traditional deterrence obsolete.
By Roy Castellano ·
Western sailors faced a lethal math in 1979, as Soviet planners prioritized the destruction of aircraft carriers to paralyze NATO's ability to project power.
By Roy Castellano ·
A woman's location served as a calibration point for experimental psychic spies, a detail held in secret for decades in a set of handwritten notes.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Secret MoD files on nuclear intelligence remained hidden for decades, masking the effort to assess atomic weapons under codenames like CHAPLAIN and ZINNIA.
By Roy Castellano ·
American analysts were blind to a Soviet Navy that operated one nuclear-powered submarine and planned wider conversions to rocket weapons before autumn 1956.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Nazi scientists embedded in the SS were tracked and vetted by Operation Surgeon to secure a strategic advantage, yet the identities of those recruited remain hidden behind vault doors.
By Eleanor Voss ·