The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

To keep Ukraine’s legacy Warsaw Pact gear in the fight, generating viable back-up production of old Soviet-caliber munitions ... on the divisive role of cluster munitions. Specifically, cluster ...

It has to decommission and modernize old Soviet weapons ... Russian troops allegedly used modified RBK-500 cluster bombs near the village of Staromaiorske, Donetsk region. Rather new modification ...

Filmmakers Thomas Brag and Staffan Taylor ventured to Kurchatov, which was a top secret town established in 1947 as the ...

Although the U.S. is not a signatory to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, U.S. law bars American firms from exporting DPICMs because of the weapon’s high dud rate and the danger that ...