If you are an American of a certain age, you know the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, beating...
Soviet Union
Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding...
The Space Race, that high-tech Cold War competition to see which global superpower could conquer the cosmos first, was such...
The Neon glow of a Nixie tube makes for an attractive clock, but that’s not enough neon for some people....
A mysterious shortwave radio signal that has puzzled intelligence agencies and amateur radio enthusiasts for decades has once again broadcast...
At the height of the Cold War, those of us on the western side of the wall had plenty of...
Mariam Ben Nakhi is not your usual teenager. Unlike most 13-year-old girls, she has a passion for fixing phones and...