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At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

The atomic bombings Eighty years ago, the ...

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On the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan, Charles Harris looks back at the 14th Army’s extraordinary campaign and the remarkable characters who shaped it

The devastating attack on Japan’s capital set a terrible new precedent for aerial mass destruction

Although war with Germany’s ally Japan was thought likely, and its ambitions of seizing natural resources it lacked were well known, the surprise air attack on the US Navy’s base at Pearl Harbor on Oa