If a first strike is designed to cripple an adversary’s ability to retaliate, targeting Hampton Roads would do that, author ...

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 ...

On October 30, 1926, Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Stimson stepped off a steam train in Kyoto, Japan, and checked into room number 56 at the nearby Miyako Hotel.

Speaking to The New York Times, Nolan shared that James Remar, who plays U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson in the film, came up with the idea for one of the most harrowing and shocking lines to ...

(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, ...

Stimson was a Vassar graduate and a celebrated expert in orthopedic surgery. She was also first cousins with Henry Stimson, the U.S. secretary of State.. When World War II began, both women felt ...

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.

Days prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, US Secretary of War Henry Stimson recorded in his diary a recollection of a meeting in the Oval Office during which President Franklin Roosevelt ...