At the outset of the Second World War President Franklin D. Roosevelt implored the belligerents to avoid civilian casualties when bombing. Yet even as he made this plea, one of the USA's greatest ...

Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing nearly 200,000 people. Months before, U.S. bombers obliterated ...

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The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was a turning point in world history, pulling the United States directly into ...

Eighty years ago this month, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ushering in the Atomic Age and ...

The Second World War ended eight decades ago this summer. But its specter looms large today. The war ended empires, upended ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 ...

In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether ...

With China as its new rival, America is reviving old wartime facilities across the Pacific. Tinian once allowed its bombers ...