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Among the most disturbing of the desperate measures taken during World War II was the recruitment of child soldiers. Here are five examples.

Why go to war over gold or land when you could fight over lobsters and a severed ear instead?

A quiz for historians to test out their musical chops!

The date was chosen to coincide with the anniversary of the end of World War I, which occurred at the 11th hour of 11th day of the 11th month.

Alvin King probably isn’t in many history books, but he deserves at least a paragraph.

The exact number is hotly debated—but there are dozens.

The medieval masterpiece—embroidered on a 230-foot piece of linen—depicts bloody battles and a royal betrayal that changed the history of England.

One atomic bomb was used in a test explosion. Two more bombs were deployed over Japan. That left a mysterious fourth bomb—code-named Thin Man—in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

According to a new archaeological study of human bones showing evidence of violent “overkill,” war was hell even in the late Stone Age.

Cockroaches have a reputation for being indestructible. But they may not be as totally immune to radiation as people think.

Fears of nuclear war led to a fleeting craze for fallout shelters stocked with crackers, body bags, and guns.

Savage battles, atomic bombs, and shark attacks were just some of the events leading up to the end of World War II in August 1945. Here's a look back on its 80th anniversary.

From a dollhouse with a nuclear bunker to an atomic energy lab with real uranium, some of these toys from the ‘50s and ‘60s have us scratching our heads.

Kokura was the original target, but avoiding the atomic bomb may have been more than just random chance.

The nuclear anxiety of the 1950s led to two unlikely strategies: ducking under school desks and taking advice from a cartoon turtle.

After dropping the atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, almost all of the 12 men aboard the ‘Enola Gay’ had something to say about it.

Eighty years after the first—and only—deployment of atomic bombs, here’s a look back at one of history’s most devastating acts of war.

Tens of thousands of fallout shelter signs, with three yellow triangles in a black circle, are visible on building façades today. They serve as grim reminders of the hottest flashes of the Cold War. So why are they still around?

Sometimes the military systems put in place to avert nuclear annihilation worked a little too well.

Some people made jokes; one person established the Nobel Prize.

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of the American Revolution.