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

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Japanse deploys Biological Weapons in China, leading to un unspecified number of deaths. Meanwhile, European Jews from ...

You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. In a journal entry from August, 2015, the writer, director, and artist Eleanor ...

The threatening emails and faxes bear the signature of a man who says he is being impersonated. The police in five nations have failed to stem them. By John Yoon Reporting from Seoul The first bomb ...

November 3, 1944 - The first of 9,000 Japanese balloon bombs was launched on Nov. 3, 1944. The Japanese government was hoping to set fires and cause casualties during World War Two. Parts of five ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Masumi Yorita was only 5 years old when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. She can still remember what it was like seeing an impacted family member: “Her face ...

Emergency officials say no evacuation orders are in place, but residents in the area were advised to prepare to leave. 697 units, ranging from studios to 3-bedroom apartments, were pre-sold to ...

That is most definitely NOT a historical fact. It's a revisionist theory that has been circulating lately. The historical facts are that even after the USSR invaded, even after all their ships were ...

Kunihiko Iida, an atomic bomb survivor and volunteer guide for the iconic exhibition hall best known as the Atomic Bomb Dome, speaks to foreign visitors on July 9, in Hiroshima, western Japan.