At the outset of the Second World War President Franklin D. Roosevelt implored the belligerents to avoid civilian casualties ...

Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this week.

Bloated staffing and costs misallocate resources and create inflexibility in making strategic choices. It may also impair the ...

As a 7-year-old boy in Hiroshima, Howard Kakita was hoping to catch the vapor trail of a B-29 bomber. A sudden blast knocked ...

On 28 July 1945 at 0940 local time, a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) North American B-25D Mitchell medium bomber ...

Nomura believes Carl Smith may have steered the bomber into the mountain to avoid crashing into nearby homes — a theory he shared with the younger Smith during the visit. The B-29 was part of ...

Shigeaki Mori, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, was on hand recently to help unveil a plaque in the rural Japanese town of Ikachi, near Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, to commemorate the ...

First published in 1961 under title: Journey of the giants.