The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

In the 80 years since the U.S. attacks on Japan, no other country has used a nuclear weapon in war. That remarkable record ...

On July 31, 1945, in Singapore Harbor, the British midget submarine XE-3 maneuvered beneath the Japanese heavy cruiser Takao for a daring sabotage mission. Leading Seaman James Magennis struggled to ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has already warned that the country would need nuclear weapons to secure sovereignty ...

On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...

The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the ...

Nato without America is out of the question and reports that the death of Nato is imminent have been greatly exaggerated, as ...

John G. Connolly, the chief pay clerk who died aboard the USS Oklahoma in the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and became ...

Australia may have to give up on the idea of a strategic equilibrium and settle for something messier and less grand.

Whether the rest of us like it or not, Mr. Trump intends to hammer out a third pragmatic compromise between Moscow and Washington. The president’s supporters claim this is nothing new. Both the Yalta ...

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, argues that any US-organized peace agreement would have to be accompanied ...