While diplomats debate whether weapons should be banned in space, Russian space crews hang onto their handguns. Should the space station be declared a gun-free zone? By NBC News' James Oberg.

For 2o years Russians were equipped with a triple-barreled gun with a swing-out machete for space missions. The TP-82 pistol was included in the Soyuz Portable Emergency-Survival Kit after two ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force introduced several weapons – including the M4 Survival Rifle, a .22 caliber bolt-action rifle developed by Harrington & Richardson from their commercial ...

In the vacuum of space, a gunshot is not muffled by the lack of air. It is actually released with all of the explosive might ...

For decades, every Soyuz rocket crew packed a sidearm in their emergency kits—even after joining the International Space Station partnership. This “survival gun,” the TOZ 82, had three ...

It’s the TP-82 survival pistol.There was a time when Russian cosmonauts regularly traveled to space with the gun in tow. But calling it a pistol is slightly misleading—the TP-82 more like a ...

The 80th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade. Russian army photo. In late 2014, the Kremlin organized a new army brigade for a new kind of war.Anticipating escalating tensions in the resource-rich ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Tula on February 2, 2024. Russian high-school students will be trained how to protect themselves in a possible nuclear war as part of the national curriculum ...