From Japan’s viewpoint, World War II was a bid to assert dominance in Asia and secure resources for a growing empire—but it came at an enormous cost. This video examines the war from the Japanese ...

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 ...

Eighty years after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki amid the rationale that it would save lives, a new book tells the survivors' stories ...

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

Hiroshima, a Delhi panel questioned the bomb’s necessity, exposing its use as a power display, while reflecting on memory, ...

Eighty years ago, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Up to 250,000 people, mostly civilians, lost their lives. Since then, many have been sincerely and others purposefully moralizing ...

The Dark Eagle hypersonic missile system, described as the most potent non-nuclear weapon in the US arsenal, was stationed in ...

Amid the innumerable books and documentaries about World War II, few examine the question of why there was widespread public support in Japan for the kamikaze missions that sent 4,000 pilots, all in ...

Armchair generals are in great abundance these days. Some of them are retired, and they become talking heads on the networks. Others are just ordinary citizens who think they know better than those ...

The proposal, delivered by US envoy Tom Barrack and discussed in Thursday’s Lebanese cabinet meeting, also calls for Lebanese ...

John Seabrook’s history of Seabrook Farms, where many incarcerated Japanese Americans worked during WWII, is ultimately about ...

In a historical moment when Donald Trump, his truly hateful inner circle, and the well funded right wing propaganda machine are trying to convince the American public that up is ...