Following Germany's surrender in 1945, the Allies initiated thorough investigations into wartime atrocities, including those committed at sea. In November, Kapitänleutnant Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and four ...

The first naval battle of World War II unfolded not in Europe, but off the coasts of Argentina and Uruguay in the South Atlantic Ocean. With Germany lacking major warships at the war’s outset, the ...

Within months of the Cuban Missile Crisis, weapons designers at Los Alamos National Laboratory began engineering what would ...