President Donald Trump recently hinted that he may revert the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, an old title dating back to 1789. “It used to be called the Department of War and it ...

This article and accompanying videos are part of a series that will delve into the history of the Bataan Memorial Death March ...

From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – long-range, strategic bombers. As the conflict wore on, technological ...

With the help of retired Navy Capt. Brayton Harris, who has written about the history of war reporting, NPR's Robert Siegel traces the ever-increasing speed with which news reports from the frontlines ...

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, shocked the world. It marked the dangerous new dawn of nuclear weapons, and foreshadowed the horrific potential of World War Three should ...

Filmmaker J.M. Harper takes a hybrid approach, combining new interviews, archival footage and stylized dramatizations, to tell the story of the U.S. Army's first all-Black special operations team in ...

The Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum will be cutting permanent staff levels by 18 per cent over the ...