Atomic Bomb | War History

Luck of Kokura: The Japanese City That Avoided Atomic Bombing – Twice

Sketch of Kokura

Kokura is located on the northern tip of Japan’s Kyushu island. Housing one of the country’s largest military arsenals, it was a key target in…

Demon Core: A Third Atomic Bomb Intended For Japan That Ended Up Killing Americans

Demon Core Atomic Bomb Experiement - Re-Creation

In August 1945 the United States dropped two atomic bombs on two Japanese cities. These bombings remain the only time nuclear weapons have ever been…

Eyewitness Testimony of Atomic Attack Preserved In ‘Hiroshima Archive’

An interactive mapping project has recently been translated in order to combine first-hand testimony from the many witnesses. The goal is to comprehensively document the…

Manhattan Project App Allows Users to Tour Secret WWII Lab

When efforts were made during the Second World War to construct an atomic bomb, it was shrouded in total secrecy. However, today the story is…

President Obama to Visit Hiroshima

President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima during a trip to Japan and Vietnam this month. He will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit…

The Manhattan Project’s Hanford Site Yields Difficult Questions

A family took a road trip to the Pacific Northwest. It was a father, mother and six-year-old daughter that traveled to Seattle and the Canadian…

Why the Rosenbergs Were Executed

On April 4th, 1951, Judge Irving Kaufman sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death. He called them traitors who put “into the hands of the…

Ellport World War Two veteran recalls his Pacific tour

An Ellport, Pennsylvania, local and World War Two veteran has told his story of being part of General MacArthur’s Sixth Army in the Pacific theatre…

Enola Gay Memorabilia Auctioned

In April 2015, a number of items from World War II were put up for auction at Bonhams in New York.  Included among these pieces…

World War Two veteran recalls days as a musician on the USS West Virginia

A new series made for video has documented how people across the US are making a difference in a positive way to the communities and…

75th Anniversary of the Tizard Mission – When British War Scientists Gave Tech Secrets To USA

The most famous events of the Second World War were not necessarily the most glorious. Dunkirk in 1940 represented a major setback for the Allies…

The Legacy of Unrecognized Patriots – The Filmmakers who filmed the Atomic Explosions

With the release of previously classified footage from the early Cold War period, a new debate about the role and fate of ‘unrecognized patriots’ of…