See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Seventy-five years ago this week, President Harry S. Truman exulted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On this day in 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands were killed instantly and ...

Seventy years ago today, President Harry Truman ordered the U.S. military to aid South Korea in repulsing an invasion from North Korea. The decision had geopolitical consequences that are still felt ...

President Truman was never told about the Manhattan Project as vice president. It was only after President Roosevelt passed away and Truman was sworn in as president that he was informed of the ...

In answer to Sue Carr-Novotny’s letter of Sept. 16, it is the same story for people 50 years after the fact and who have no idea what the world was like when President Harry Truman made the wise ...

Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential understatements of all time, Emperor Hirohito told the people of Japan that "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." ...

Did President Truman have a viable alternative to dropping the atomic bombs on Japan as some critics have suggested? No issue has fueled more anti-American sentiment than the revisionist idea that the ...

Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombings ...

On this day in 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands were killed instantly and the toll, together with the atomic bombing of Nagasaki several days ...