Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This month marked the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, helping bring an end to World War II. Myra Mansfield shares an excerpt of her ...

An illustration of the moments following the ‘Enola Gay’’s deployment of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

The way a war was fought changed forever in August of 1945 when the United States detonated the world's first atomic bombs on ...

It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about. When President ...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, months and ...

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

President Obama is in Japan attending the G-7 summit of international leaders. While there, he will also visit Hiroshima, the first city to be bombed by a nuclear weapon. Here's the announcement ...