With fears of a new world war ascendant, the lessons of World War II continue to resonate, though there is less agreement ...

President Donald Trump continued his inaccurate insistence Wednesday that World War II ended for the U.S. on May 8, 1945, ...

V-E Day, on May 8, 1945, marked the end of World War II in Europe. But we're still learning that conflict's deepest lessons.

World War II, of course, was also the dawn of the nuclear age. Many regarded the invention of the atom bomb with horror and considered the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be a war crime. And ...

By then, the United States had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (on August 6 and 9). Thus, the Soviet Union played the major role in defeating the fascist military coalition, including ...

Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th ...

On the morning of August 9th 1945, air raid sirens began to ring out in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. However, a short while ...

The United States dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the first bombing of Hiroshima, together killing more than 210,000 people. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ...

My interest in Japanese Catholicism was reignited recently by the Nagasaki Bell Project, a noble effort being led by ...