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Jolly British tars were grave, last week, at news that the submarine L55 had been raised from Baltic waters, after nine years. Forty-one British skeletons were discovered by the salvage crew all of ...

The K-278 Komsomolets was a one-of-a-kind vessel, developed by the Rubin Design Bureau to test technologies for future fourth-generation Russian nuclear submarines. Ordered in 1966 and designed by ...

Australia's 1980 Olympic sailing team reunites after 45 years, reflecting on their untold story and the impact of the Moscow ...

Here's an American acronym we ought to translate promptly into the Iranian language of Farsi: INCSEA. It's shorthand for a May 1972 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to prevent ...

In the sprawling, smelly Rumanian port of Constantsa last month, a tough gang of greasy longshoremen looked expectantly out to sea. Over five months had elapsed since Joseph Stalin agreed to send ...

Onlookers at a Key West, Fla., beach where the Army's Hawk anti-aircraft missiles were positioned during the Cuban missile crisis. Underwood Archives/Getty Images History has often been shaped by ...