In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President Truman's government decided to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On ...

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, ...

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, ...

August marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombs ending World War II. Initially, the American public hailed President Harry Truman’s decision to deploy the weapons against Japan. In time, however ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared in The Charlotte Observer on Aug. 6, 1995, the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, is the 80th anniversary.

China had been invaded by Japan in 1931—the first sign of war—and 1937. And the United States did not get active. And finally ...

This week marks 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing an estimated 200,000 people. Historian Garrett Graff’s new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” draws ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

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