This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear explosion, marking the moment humankind crossed into the atomic age.Part of The Manhattan Project led by J Robert Oppenheimer, Trinity was a codename ...

No U.S. Secretary of War in 75 years has faced such a situation as Henry Lewis Stimson faced last week. He had 1,500,000 soldiers under arms and many of them wanted to go home at a time when he was ...

When Henry Lewis Stimson was 60, he sailed off to become the governor general of the Philippines. Cal Coolidge was President and the year was 1928. Stimson mellowly described the trip as "a ...

In 1929, Secretary of State Henry Stimson disbanded the State Department’s cryptology office that decoded foreign diplomatic cable traffic, famously saying afterwards, “Gentlemen do not read ...

Letter from Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Truman, informing him about the atomic bomb. April 24, 1945 Dear Mr. President, I think it is very important that I should have a talk with ...

(Henry Stimson, Secretary of War, 1940-1945) Stimson’s 1947 assertion stands in contrast with the United States today as it struggles with what role, if any, nuclear power should have in the US ...

It arrives during a scene where Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer is meeting with U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson and other government officials about where to drop the atomic bombs in Japan.

In one scene, J Robert Oppenheimer meets with government officials, including US Secretary of War Henry Stimson. They discuss which part of Japan to drop the bomb on, and Stimson specifically ...

City Bar Holds 32nd Annual Henry L. Stimson Medal Presentation The award is named for the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1906-09.