Japanese men carry a victim of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki in this August 1945 file photo by Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata. via REUTERS Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential ...

Eighty years ago, the US government carried out one of world imperialism’s most horrific war crimes: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The bombings, on August 6 and 9, 1945, ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 149. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, shocked the world. It marked the dangerous new dawn of nuclear ...

What looked like a catastrophic Allied blunder became an unexpected intelligence revelation. Two days after the bombing, Allied commanders learned the truth through intercepted German communications.

As Japan marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings, the mayor of Nagasaki is warning that the world could see the same kind of devastating attack again. Approximately 2,600 people, including ...

Even without knowing exactly what the U.S. military mission named “Operation Midnight Hammer” did to the underground Iranian nuclear facilities, Trump and Republicans are triumphantly spiking the ball ...

Remembering the bombing attack that killed more than 200 Marines. British soldiers assist in rescue operations at the site of the bomb-wrecked U.S. Marine command center near the Beirut airport in ...

Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...

Jets from the Myanmar military dropped two bombs on the facility in Mrauk-U, in what rebels and witnesses called a deliberate attack on civilians.

The discovery of a World War II bomb in Slovakia's capital during construction work prompted evacuations on Tuesday, officials said. The emergency measure covered several blocks in downtown Bratislava ...

President Donald Trump became the latest in a decades-long pattern of presidents not waiting for Congress to weigh in on war plans when he approved June 21 U.S. military strikes on Iranian nuclear ...

Thousands of people were forced to evacuate a bustling neighborhood of Hong Kong overnight while experts sweated through the delicate work of defusing an undetonated nearly 5-foot, 1,000-pound bomb ...