firebombing of Tokyo

“Paper City” explores the forgotten firebombing of Japan’s capital.

Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.

On the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan, we should remember that deploying the bomb wasn’t necessary to win the war.

Before she met John Lennon, she was a significant figure in avant-garde circles and had created masterpieces. Did celebrity deprive her of her due as an artist?

Gary Bass’s new book asks why the tribunal in Tokyo after World War II was so ineffective.

A new book's insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by its own evidence.

Fifty years on, Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, “Napalm Girl,” still has the power to shock. But can a picture change the world?

Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.

Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.

The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.