I was watching a video on YouTube last night: American Experience: PBS: Pearl Harbor Surprise and Remembrance . There was a segment about U...

I was watching a YouTube documentary How World War II Bomber Crews Worked and was in a part of the video that was a little dull, consistin...

Played on real red balloons. I loved the song 99 Luftballons by Lena when it came out in the mid-80's. It was an anti-nuclear we...

70 years later

Trailer for the classic movie, The Longest Day . One of my favorite war movies, it's chock-full of stars including Richard Burton, Sea...

One of the best commercials I've seen.(in a while, anyway)

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken pla...

This wasn't a good idea, for several reasons.

From the site : The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only ...

July 16, 1945 was the first detonation of a nuclear device, code named Trinity . "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds....

This just hit my email inbox: I forget why I entered the contest; I'm sure the Grand Prize was something I really wanted or I woul...

languor \LANG-guhr; LANG-uhr\ , noun; 1. Mental or physical weariness or fatigue. 2. Listless indolence, especially the indolence of one wh...

From Today in History The Ardennes Offensive, called Unternehmen: Wacht am Rhein (Operation Watch on the Rhine) by the German military, offi...

A fascinating look at houses and places along Normandy beach in 1944 compared to how they look today; here's one example from the site ...

Raising the flag on Iwo Jima