Harry S. Truman

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have agreed to hold talk to end the war in Ukraine.

Putin’s Crazy Carve-Up Could Give Trump Greenland and Canada

The Russian leader’s dreams of bringing the world’s strongmen together gathers pace.

David Gardner

The Hiroshima Cover-Up Began in the Nuclear Era’s First Hour

After the bomb dropped 75 years ago, U.S. officials took pains to spin and censor the press, and control the atomic narrative, to this day.

Greg Mitchell

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75TH ANNIVERSARY

Were Hiroshima and Nagasaki War Crimes? It’s Not so Simple.

American public opinion, strongly supportive of the bombings at the time, has shifted markedly. Which generation has it right?

Jack Schwartz

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‘JUST MAKES ME MAD’

Truman Didn’t Want to Read About What He’d Done to Hiroshima

The story in The New Yorker exposed many Americans to what the atomic bomb had done — but the commander in chief didn’t appear interested.

Greg Mitchell

VICTORY LAP

On VE Day, Behind the Joy of Peace, the Ravages of War

As we struggle to defeat a new, lethally pervasive enemy, this is a moment to understand that enduring victory is less a moment than a process.

Clive Irving

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ENDSPELL

The Codebreakers Who Exposed Soviet Spies–and Fed Paranoia

Schoolteachers, archeologists, linguists and mathematicians worked on the Venona project breaking unbreakable Soviet code from WWII. They were heroes. But some had deep regrets.

Christopher Dickey

Harry S. Truman

Putin’s Crazy Carve-Up Could Give Trump Greenland and Canada

The Hiroshima Cover-Up Began in the Nuclear Era’s First Hour

Were Hiroshima and Nagasaki War Crimes? It’s Not so Simple.

Truman Didn’t Want to Read About What He’d Done to Hiroshima

On VE Day, Behind the Joy of Peace, the Ravages of War

The Codebreakers Who Exposed Soviet Spies–and Fed Paranoia

The Spy Who Started the Cold War

Missing: President Truman’s Bejeweled Swords

The Civil Rights Book About the 1940s You Need to Read Now

The Quagmire to End All Quagmires

Russia Probe as World-Historical Rerun?