August 14, 1945. The day Japan surrendered. I was eleven year old. I was crammed in the back of a pickup packed with other boys and girls, all yelling our hearts out as loud as we could to be heard ...

Here’s a Times Union reporter’s account of his interview with the physicist in the days after two atomic bombs fell on Japan The front page of the Times Union on Aug. 12, 1945, featured an exclusive ...

World War II's Manhattan Project – which developed the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945 – was one of the greatest scientific, technological, and logistical achievements in history. The ...

The Japanese port was not the U.S.'s. first choice for a nuclear attack in August 1945, but shifting circumstances and last-minute choices doomed the city. Two camphor trees guard the entrance to the ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1960-04-01/reconquest-burma-volume-ii-june-1944-august-1945https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews ...

When Japan surrendered 70 years ago this month, the United States stood supreme in the Pacific. Only the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy had surface combatants that could roam freely from the ...