A photographed journey in the land of the rising sun reveals how japan preserves centuries-old tradition, while at the same ...

World War II was decided by more than strategy and manpower. The weapons each side brought to the battlefield often ...

“We are now ab0ut 2 hrs from bombs away,” Lewis, 26, wrote as the B-29 approached the Japanese city it was about to destroy. “The bomb is now alive. And it’s a funny feeling knowing it’s right in back ...

Paul Tibbets of Quincy, Illinois, began his military career 89 years ago, leading to his role piloting the Enola Gay over ...

Lewis’s account, which he wrote during and after the bombing, has just been put up for sale by Dan Whitmore, a rare book dealer in Pasadena, California, who is handling it on consignment for the ...

Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

It would be his 13th bombing run — set on the 13th. “Friday, October 13, 1944: Friday the 13th. My lucky day,” Ryan wrote.

On 5 February, the planet entered an even more precarious era of escalating nuclear risks. The expiration of a strategic-arms ...

A question asked after a lecture turned into a 13-year dialogue between an atomic bomb survivor and a descendant of a hibakusha, which produced lessons for the world in these turbulent times in a ...

Revolutionary futuristic warplanes were developed in the Second World War. To prevent the enemy from learning the secrets of ...

Relive the closing ceremony with highlights, reactions and key moments you may have missed from the Winter Olympics finale.

The image showing American troops at the Battle of Iwo Jima was taken on February 23, 1945, but it took decades before their ...