On July 31, 1945, the Project Alberta team on Tinian, working with the 509th Composite Group, conducted a complete dress ...

There are not many people who have survived a nuclear attack.There is only one person who officially survived two.On this day, 80 years ago, young engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was telling his boss about ...

Each spring and fall, a group of 20 or so explores various parts of Japan for an immersive, exciting two weeks. We take the subways and buses, literally rubbing shoulders with the locals, and do a lot ...

In an effort to end the Second World War, the United States made an irreversible decision, changing the course of history: ...

Vladimir Dzhabarov emphasized the significance of the Soviet offensive in Manchuria, noting that it was decisive because the United States would not have succeeded in ending the war with atomic bombs ...

Although the atomic bomb hasn't been used in war since it was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the possibility of its ...

"The US is threatened to the extent it is now building up to a nuclear confrontation with rising nuclear powers Rus" IT IS ...

"As a little kid, you're just in awe that all these people want to see and talk to the man that tucked you in bed every night ...

Even General Tojo Hideki, often considered one of the most bellicose leaders of wartime Japan, and who was later executed by ...

Difficult and controversial as it was, President Truman's decision to drop the bombs saved countless lives, both Japanese and ...

Ari Beser’s grandfather was on the two American B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima ...

W]e soon began to raise pyramids of bodies and pour fuel on them to set them afire.” The memory would never leave him. This week the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the bombings of ...