In 1941, HMS Victorious, a formidable British aircraft carrier, joined the mission to locate and attack the German battleship Bismarck and its escort, Prinz Eugen. With her Fairey Swordfish ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombings resulted in thousands of causalities in Japan.

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bombing was dropped on Nagasaki. The atomic bombs instantly took thousands of ...

It’s not hyperbole to suggest that there are two worlds – one before and one after the detonation of the atomic bomb. Interestingly ... The second drawing shows a mushroom with the note ...

Walter Pincus, a former Post reporter and columnist and author of “Blown to Hell: America’s Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders,” writes for the Cipher Brief. On May 31, 1945, six ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, spent years wrestling with ... the historian Alice Kimball Smith, drawing on archival material and interviews, chronicled the intense discussions ...

Robert Oppenheimer sketched the first crude drawing of an atomic bomb. AI researchers can see themselves in the story of a small community of scientists who find that their work could shape the ...

The physicist and architect of the American atomic bomb was stripped of his security ... His father gave the young woman a Cézanne drawing. In the 1930s, like many political liberals, Oppenheimer ...

20, 1945: “The war would have been over in two weeks without the Russians entering and without the atomic bomb.” When asked to clarify, LeMay said, “The atomic bomb had nothing to do with ...