To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

Eighty years ago this month, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ushering in the Atomic Age and ...

Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons during World War II and is perhaps best known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb.” ...

On July 16, 1945, the world changed forever. The United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in the New Mexico desert. Just weeks later, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

In March, a World War II bomb was found near the tracks of Paris' Gare du Nord station. In February, more than 170 bombs were found near a children's playground in northern England.

In June, some 20,000 people were evacuated from the west German city of Cologne after the discovery of three unexploded World War II bombs there. The evacuation in Cologne was the largest recorded ...

LONDON -- Thousands of people were evacuated from the center of the east German city of Dresden on Wednesday, as authorities there prepared to defuse a World War II bomb discovered near one of the ...

On the closing days of World War II, 90,000–166,000 people were killed in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, after The Enola Gay bomber dropped the “Little Boy” Uranium fission nuclear bomb on the city.

LONDON -- Thousands of people were evacuated from the center of the east German city of Dresden on Wednesday, as authorities there prepared to defuse a World War II bomb discovered near one of the ...