Russia is modernizing its Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruiser, Admiral Nakhimov, a Cold War-era warship designed to ...

The 1970s saw the Soviet Union embark on an unprecedented naval endeavor - building a surface warfare vessel that rivaled the ...

The ship, which had flipped on its side and partially sank after a botched launch, is now back upright.

Thorstein Veblen, the economist who published “The Theory of the Leisure Class,” in 1899, argued that the power of “conspicuous consumption” sprang not from artful finery but from sheer ...