Japanese civilians were neither fascists nor communists nor anti-semites nor anti-hamites nor anyone else 'deserving' of immolation. Their government was however guilty of good old-fashioned ...

Expressing grief and anger over a gunman’s killing of two people in Washington, including an Israeli embassy worker, feels ...

Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.

Cardinals entered St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday for a final Mass before the conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis after his death last month. The Mass comes before the private ...

In the tense years before World War II, strange sightings of an unidentified aircraft sparked fear and speculation across Europe. Silent, fast, and untraceable, this mystery plane was a shadowy ...

The development of a nuclear bomb that would be 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II is "significantly ahead of schedule," according to U.S ...

Boasting an overwhelming maximum yield of 360 kilotons, the B61-13 bomb is no less than 24 times more powerful than the devastating Hiroshima bomb, signalling heightened fears of a possible ...

Viewers “awake” to see their outstretched legs on the ground of a dirt-floor shack, before “blinking” and reappearing in a field, holding a basket of cotton, as other enslaved people toil ...

Senator Mitch McConnell is warning that Donald Trump’s turn towards “America First”-style isolationism is dangerous for the country and the world, and recalls the times before World War II.

WW2 is made up of terrible and heroic stories ... The atomic bombing of the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki remains the first and only use of nuclear weapons in history to date. Paul Tibbets was the ...

How many days did survivors have before acute radiation syndrome killed them? M.G. Sheftall explores these questions in “Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses.” As a professor of modern Japanese ...