The Oppenheimer movie has brought up the question of whether two fission bombs were needed to end the war with Japan. This question requires understanding the situation in 1945. Germany did not ...

In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was ...

The Manhattan Project to develop the bombs was one of the greatest scientific, technological, and logistical achievements in history. The bombs ended the war and saved millions of lives of combatants ...

LONDON, Aug. 6 (A.P.)—Germany possessed some atomic power secrets, said Winston Churchill tonight, but “by god’s mercy British and American science outpaced all German efforts.” WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 ...

In the smoldering wake of World War II, few places bore the scars of conflict like Japan. Cities lay in ruins, infrastructure crumbled, and entire populations were left homeless. Into this devastation ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

Tokyo’s Sumida Ward memorial preserves the remains of some 105,000 people, including those who died in the massive air raid.