US bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the same as those which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, heading to bomb Osaka in 1945. United States Army Air Force August 2025 marked the 80th ...

In the shadow of the first nuclear explosion in 1945, engineers on both sides of the Cold War raced to create tanks that could survive and even harness atomic power. America’s Chrysler TV-8 and the ...

At the outset of the Yalta Conference on February 4, 1945, the «Big Three» were all optimistic: victory was in no doubt, and the accord that they had achieved seemed likely to preserve the values they ...

This video explores various aspects of Exercise Sweetbriar during the Cold War, including: - Face mask research relevant to Arctic conditions - An assessment of cold combat tactics - Insights into ...

Americans believe that they “Won the Cold War” — that is, that the U.S. defeated the Soviet Union’s bid for global dominance. Washington outlasted Moscow, leading to the USSR’s imperial collapse. Yet ...

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but ...

Introduction: If not now, when? Lynd's half-century journey for social change in the United States -- Premature New Leftist, 1945-1960 -- Historical protagonist ...

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 450. Maps, table, notes, biblio., index. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 0806187042 War in the Shadow of Doomsday Older readers of this review will have spent ...

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment ...