The Japanese delegation surrenders on the U.S.S. Missouri, September 2, 1945. The surrender came in the aftermath of the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August, 1945. Courtesy of The National Archives
On September 2, 1945, aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, World War II officially ended as Mamoru Shigemitsu, the Japanese foreign minister, and General Yoshijiro Umeza, the chief of staff of...
In the opening months of 1945, the Japanese home islands were subjected to an increasingly intensive aerial bombardment from U.S. long-range B-29 bombers based on the Mariana Islands. At first, the...
At 6:10 p.m. EDT on August 14, 1945, Washington received word that Japan's leaders had agreed to surrender to the Allies in World War II. The decision, which brought an end to the most costly war...
On this day in 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the ''father of the atomic bomb,'' was born in New York City on April 22, 1904. An expert in quantum theory and nuclear physics, he was enlisted into the fledgling U.S....
On January 31, 1950, President Truman announced his decision to support the development of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped...
Unable to neutralize U.S. opposition to its actions in SE Asia, Japan opened hostilities against the United States and Great Britain on December 7, 1941, by striking at Pearl Harbor, Singapore, and...
On August 8, 1955, Lewis Strauss, the head of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), spoke to the United Nations on the future of nuclear development. In 1946, Strauss left a highly successful banking...
This clip, produced by the U.S. Signal Corps in 1946, was part of a film entitled "Day of Victory". The atomic bombs that detonated on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945),...
