The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was trapped inside the USS Yorktown with this bomb still attached to its cradle. The aircraft carrier was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of ...

The tiny Pacific island of Tinian was once used to cause the most devastating blast in human history. Now its 80-year-old ...

This WW2 warplane delivered firebombing raids so intense, they eclipsed the destruction of even the atomic bomb. Its legacy is one of silence, shadows, and cities reduced to ash. Discover the ...

STORY: Ahead of nuclear talks with the U.S. on Saturday, Iran said it would give them a “genuine chance.”That comes after U.S ...

Ari Beser's grandfather served on the planes that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Harada Kosuzu's grandfather ...

And they were willing to devote huge amounts of resources to building rockets, jet planes, and other forms of deadly and sometimes exotic forms of military technology. So why not the atomic bomb?

He saw the plane that dropped the bomb ... In the 75 years since President Harry Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs in order to end World War II and avoid an American invasion of Japan ...