The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...

This video explains how nuclear deterrence theory emerged after World War II as strategists grappled with weapons capable of ...

Karin Tanabe is a producer of the 2025 PBS documentary Atomic Echoes: Untold Stories from World War II. A Japanese American ...

This episode tells the story of a secret weapon that transformed air defense during World War II. It follows the scientists, ...

Eighty years since the end of World War II, the British are recalling many battles fought on the path to victory. Yet one ...

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105.

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

Experts have claimed that if its wanted to, Japan could develop its own nuclear weapons stockpile in a matter of years.

After the New START treaty expires in February, there will be no cap on the number of US and Russian nuclear weapons - but ...

A new tool shows the catastrophic impact of a nuclear strike as Russia deploys its “unstoppable” Oreshnik missile, putting ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly ...