soviet union

Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union created secret cities to house the scientists working in their nuclear weapons programs. Both nations went about this in very different ways and with very different, sometimes disastrous, results.

The biologist Trofim Lysenko, blamed for millions of deaths, is experiencing a revival in Russia.

The political and economic ideas of socialism are coming back into fashion.

The times in history when science was deadly and dangerous.