Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

Crown Prince Fumihito, the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, said ahead of his 60th birthday on Sunday that he found the ...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar warned that bioterrorism by non-state actors is no longer distant, emphasizing the ...

The total conflict of the Second World War saw battles on land, in the sky, and at sea. These are just a few Navy ships that ...

After 1st Lt. John Gothie failed to return from a bombing raid over Japan at the end of World War II, his cousins in Hazleton never knew what happened to him.

Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western ...

Historically, Japan has had numerous women monarchs. But current laws prevent the emperor's daughter from succeeding him — ...

Anti-nuclear groups in Japan fiercely oppose revising a ban on the entry of nuclear weaponsImage: Kim Kyung-Hoon/REUTERS ...

" We The People" focuses on Iowan Harley Wilhelm. He is the Iowa State chemistry professor who helped stop a world war and ...

The 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in August brought into sharp focus the steep decline in the number of people with firsthand experience of the war. For the first time, more than half of ...

James Cameron has given a somewhat disappointing update to his Last Train From Hiroshima movie, revealing more about the ...

A desert site about 65 miles north of Las Vegas had been selected for nuclear weapons testing. It was 1953 and 11 atomic bomb detonations took place here between March and June as part of Operation ...