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How close was Germany to developing an atomic bomb in World War 2? Learn the story of the secret commando raid to destroy Germany's Heavy Water facility. Just why was Germany so interested in the ...
On 80th anniversary of the 1st & only use of nuclear weapons, Nobel laureates warn that the world is closer to nuclear war ...
In “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb,” Garrett M. Graff presents the accounts of hundreds of people who were part of the creation, ...
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...
As the 80th anniversary of V-J Day approaches, veteran Caster Salemi reflects on his World War II experiences at Hudson's ...
Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...
The cities will celebrate their 'sister city' relationship this month, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Japan.
The Martyrs Museum honors 26 Japanese Christians who were arrested in 1597 and forced to march barefoot for 30 days to Nagasaki, where they were hung on crosses and martyred on the Nishizaka Hill ...
The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...
Devon poet Clare Bryden has written a moving piece for the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, honouring atomic bomb victims and ...
HIROSHIMA: Crown Princess Kiko and her second daughter Princess Kako placed flowers at the Cenotaph for the Victims of the ...
The excerpt features Myra Mansfield's father, 10-year-old Stan Finch, a paper boy in Oak Ridge, on Au. 6, 1945 - when t he first bomb dropped.