Rhode Island native John DeLeo served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and is one of the last living witnesses to the ...

August 6 is Hiroshima Day, marking the first atomic bombing in 1945. Here's a deep dive into why it happened, who was ...

August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 ...

Master Sergeant Arcadio Santiago Rodríguez, 101, of Palm Bay, Florida, went peacefully into his Father's arms on July 11, 2025.

From Japan to Palestine, the dehumanisation of victims of US imperialist violence has enabled mass killing to be repeated - ...

He was far removed from the cliched notion of the staid public servant as he wheeled and dealed his way across the globe, ...

Eighty years ago this coming week, at 8.15am on August 6, 1945, Little Boy, the first atomic weapon to be used against an ...

Today in History for Aug. 14: In 1040, King Duncan of Scotland was murdered by Macbeth, who became king and ruled for 17 years. In 1811, Paraguay declared its independence. In 1814, British General ...

A Japanese general supported “one last battle.” It would be “wondrous for this whole nation to be destroyed like a beautiful flower,” he said. That’s how fanatical their resolve was. Another reason to ...

In the beginning days of World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was holed up on Corregidor, a small island in Manila Bay in the ...

One of the facts often overlooked in stories about World War II is that there were about 5,000 American civilians in the ...

This U.S. Navy World War II combat bulletin begins with the successful test of an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert a… ...