Marshal Kazakov and the 500 Kiloton Plan for US Marine Landings
US Marines and carrier strike groups were the designated targets of a Soviet nuclear strike plan that stayed hidden in a classified CIA file until 2017.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Soviet Su-25 Jets and the Nuclear Shadow over the European Plain
The Soviet Union built a ground-attack jet to shred tank columns, but the analysts who watched it were specialists in atomic energy and nerve agents.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Russian Submarines Nearly Triggered Catastrophe in 1993
Sailors nearly died in a 1993 submarine collision and a report on biological warfare remains blacked out, according to records of a 1994 summit.
By Roy Castellano ·