Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President ...

I was sitting with an old soldier named Ray Gallagher. He held in his hands a small doll. The doll’s name was Marianne and it was the doll that he took with him to war. It had been given to him by his ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This month marked the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, helping bring an end to World War II. Myra Mansfield shares an excerpt of her ...

An illustration of the moments following the ‘Enola Gay’’s deployment of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, ...

Tick. Tick. Tick. Eighty years ago this month, the doomsday clock jolted to life. Nothing was the same after Aug. 6, 1945. On that date, the first of two American atomic bombs went off in Hiroshima, ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

Hiroshima, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in a ceremony of remembrance, but it was an event also aimed, psychologically, at preventing ...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, months and ...

It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about. When President ...