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Wealthy Russians are researching the UK's World War II internment policies in...
Wealthy Russian residents in London are concerned about a possible war between the UK and Russia.Rich clients of the Russian international law firm Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners are looking...
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The British planned to start World War III by invading Russia with the German...
With the dust still settling after the end of World War II in Europe, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill set his sights on the next threat to Western Democracy: the Soviet Union.Churchill was a...
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Japan and the US will be burying their World War II ghosts after 70 years
TOKYO (AP) — An American president in Hiroshima. A Japanese prime minister at Pearl Harbor. One longtime taboo has already fallen this year, and the other soon will.On Dec. 27, Prime Minister Shinzo...
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Unforgettable photos from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 75 years ago...
WASHINGTON, DC — Under the South Pacific sun on December 7, 1941, troops serving the US fleet at Pearl Harbor began a calm Sunday morning unaware that Japanese bombers were headed toward America's most...
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Here's what President Roosevelt said to his Cabinet after the attack on Pearl...
Seventy-five years ago, to the day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ushered his Cabinet into his study for what he deemed the "most important" Cabinet meeting since the onset of the Civil War in...
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Watch historical footage of Pearl Harbor hours after the devastating Japanese...
Sunday, December 7, 1941, began like any other Sunday at Pearl Harbor, the US's most important Pacific base.Sailors and airmen slowly roused themselves from sleep as the might of the US fleet sat at...
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Japanese leaders are pressuring Shinzo Abe not to apologize for Pearl Harbor
Conservatives in Japan have reacted angrily to suggestions Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should use his visit to Pearl Harbour in late December to apologise for the attack that brought the US into the...
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The world's largest armies from antiquity to the present
Mapmaking graphic artist Martin Vargic's has made an amazing graphic tracking the size of the world's largest armies at different points in time. The graphic gives an understanding of the just how...
View ArticleRare footage shows the successful testing of the most powerful weapon known...
Gadget, the world's first atomic bomb, was detonated on the morning of July 6, 1945, changing the course of history. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by Amanda Macias.Follow BI Video: On...
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Here's how many 'super nukes' American scientists thought it would take to...
Shortly after the end of World War II, the scientists who developed the atomic bombs dropped on Japan tried to envision the kind of nuclear event that could lead to the destruction of not just cities,...
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72 years ago, the Nazis launched their last great offensive of World War II —...
By late 1944, Allied forces had pushed Nazi Germany back in much of Europe, retaking Paris and Rome.US Army intelligence determined that the thick evergreen forest of the Ardennes in Belgium would be a...
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How POWs got playing cards with secret escape maps for Christmas
US troops and their playing cards have a long history. A large chunk of deployment is spent killing time until the action starts – and card games have long been the weapon of choice for that...
View ArticleAnimated map shows every nuclear-bomb explosion in history
President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that the US needed to "expand its nuclear capability." When he was later asked about the tweet by "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski, Trump responded "let it be an...
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5 momentous military events that took place on Christmas Day
Christmas is one of the most celebrated holidays on earth. But that doesn't mean that conflicts simply freeze every December 25th. Here's a look at some of the major military events that have fallen on...
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Shinzo Abe pays respects at Hawaii memorials a day before Japan's first...
HONOLULU (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday stopped at several memorials in Hawaii, one day before he will visit the site of the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor during a trip...
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'We must never repeat the horrors of war again': Japan's prime minister and...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Barack Obama made a historic joint visit to Pearl Harbor Tuesday, honoring thousands who perished in the Japanese surprise attack of December 7, 1941...
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Life aboard World War II submarines was brutal
No one has ever claimed that life aboard a U.S. Navy ship was luxurious. Even on the most advanced warships on the planet life can still be cramped. Though today amenities are much improved, the...
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72 years ago, the Allies beat back the last great Nazi offensive — 16 photos...
On the morning of December 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German troops and almost 1,000 tanks drove into the Ardennes, across an 85-mile stretch of the front line, running from southern Belgium to the...
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This unstoppable artillery bombardment doomed Nazi Berlin
In what is sometimes described as the largest artillery bombardment in history, the Soviets opened the road to Berlin in 1945 at the Battle of Seelow Heights with a massive barrage that saw over 9,000...
View ArticleThe incredible story of one doctor who saved the lives of a million soldiers
Dr. Charles Drew first developed the blood bank in 1940 to help Britain during World War II, and later went on to invent the bloodmobile as well. Follow Tech Insider:On FacebookJoin the conversation...
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