Although this claim runs counter to much of the recent scholarship regarding the need for the atomic bombs, the wealth of primary source evidence convincingly documents the likely costs of an Allied ...

Vice Admiral William Halsey Jr. authorized the largest carrier-based attack in U.S. Navy history, a bold move that would ...

Perhaps 5,000 Allied bombers would have saturated Japan with napalm. The atomic bombings prevented such a nightmarish incendiary storm. The bombs also cut short plans for an invasion of Japan ...

Military planners envisioned the invasion of Japan proper in two phases ... Units in the Pacific, reinforced by American and other allied troops transferred from the European theater, would ...

President Joe Biden will visit Japan and Australia next month to huddle with allies on their continued response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well as ways to confront China’s assertive ...