The world is on the brink of nuclear war. How can the Soviet Union and the USA prevent it? The Cuban Missile Crisis, told by ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

Boston police officers provided a special send-off Wednesday for seven World War II veterans making the trip of a lifetime.

An eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, along with some remarkably prescient observations about what they could mean for future superpower rivalries.

North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals ...

Washington’s gamble on metallic fast reactors and the use of plutonium in them could turn bomb metal into centuries of power.

While America honors Pearl Harbor 84 years ago, World War II veterans E. Paul Ball and Luther Hendricks say the haunting ...

Explore how the Pearl Harbor movie twists real World War II history, what truly happened on December 7, 1941, and why the film’s controversy is trending again.

Dr. Masao Tomonaga was two years old when he survived the 1945 atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki. Today, he and other survivors ...

Pearl Harbor’s 84th Anniversary commemoration, themed “Building Pathways to Peace," reflects on the 1941 attack that launched ...

His family learned of his death on Dec. 16, 1941. Within three weeks North End leaders arranged to have Mussolini Street ...

The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor lasted about 90 minutes, killing and wounding more than 3,000 military and ...