Did demons create the first atomic bombs? Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs, 81 years ago, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima ...

SETOUCHI, Japan—The Chinese warships that sail close to the Japanese island of Amami-Oshima make Naruhito Kamada nervous. A ...

Today, it seems hard to fathom that Japan was an unyielding adversary of the West; it surrendered on Sept. 2, 1945, when ...

Japan’s Ministry of Defense has requested a record 8.9 trillion yen – or $55.6 billion – for its Fiscal Year 2027 Defense ...

The Smithsonian is at it again. But now, not just the Air and Space Museum, but the entire enterprise, is going woke. The ...

Jim Justice reveals how a last-minute conversation with Martin Heinrich broke a partisan logjam to pass the Hershel Woody Williams monument bill.

In February 1945, U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima expecting a difficult but relatively short fight. Instead, they encountered ...

The following year marked another deadly one for terrorism. On June 25, 1996, a truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. military's Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The attack killed 19 U.S.

In 1945, Percy Spencer made a casual observation that led to a major change in food preparation. Standing next to a magnetron ...

Filmmaker Werner Herzog famously stated that he would confront the devil himself for the sake of his films, a testament to ...

September 3, 2026: Since 1945, the Russian army has undergone seemingly continuous reform and anti-corruption efforts. Another one of those is now underway, again in response to the lackluster ...

To “IL” or not to “IL”—that is the question. According to the program at the other night’s performance by Will Crutchfield’s Teatro Nuovo (TN) of Mozart’s great opera about Don Juan, it’s IL DON ...