Henry L. Stimson

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

It’s only a century since US diplomats first persuaded the world that it’s wrong for countries to annex their neighbours.

The Truman administration launched a PR campaign to inflate casualty numbers to justify the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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

American leaders called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki our 'least abhorrent choice,' but there were alternatives to the nuclear attacks.

Felix Frankfurter was renowned as a liberal lawyer and advocate. Why did he turn out to be such a conservative Supreme Court justice?

What explains the apparently sudden spike in intergalactic traffic after WWII? If Cold War anxieties are to blame, why have sightings persisted?

A set of speech drafts suggests that Truman may not have fully understood the implications of dropping an atomic bomb on the city.

In 1931, Herbert O. Yardley published a tell-all book about his experiences leading a covert government agency called the Cipher Bureau.

The Supreme Court’s deference to FDR during World War II resulted in unjustifiable ethical breaches.

On the origins of America's hegemonic foreign policy.

The Great War forced the US to create a modern spying and analysis apparatus.

The movie has no interest in reducing the atomic bombings to a trivializing, exploitative spectacle, despite what some would want.

The "father of the atomic bomb" has long been misunderstood. Will the new film finally get J. Robert Oppenheimer right?

Today, the military is perhaps the largest integrated institution in the US. But how it came to be this way reveals a history of racism and resistance.

Felix Frankfurter warned that politicians, not the courts, should make policy.

These Progressive Era Republicans wanted to run the Federal government like a business.

The rise and fall of the WASP.

Did the United States have no other option but to drop atomic bombs on Japan in order to get them to surrender?

Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.