Germany undertook several research programs relating to nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, before and during World War...

During World War II, Japan had several programs exploring the use of nuclear fission for military technology, including nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons...

development of nuclear weapons in 1945 and their use by the United States in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, the risk...

UNSC resolutions. The United States developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II in cooperation with the United Kingdom and Canada as part...

possess nuclear weapons. Pakistan began developing nuclear weapons in January 1972 under Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who delegated the program to the...

Thailand officially adopted a neutral position during World War II until the five hour-long Japanese invasion of Thailand on 8 December 1941, which led...

begins recruiting Jewish nuclear scientists and forming scientific institutes during war of independence for a nuclear weapons program. 1949 – Israeli scientists...

television series which feature events of World War II in the narrative. List of World War II films List of World War II short films The deceased historical...

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about...

Technology played a significant role in World War II. Some of the technologies used during the war were developed during the interwar years of the 1920s and...

and a radar blackout. The first nuclear weapons were developed by the Allied Manhattan Project during World War II. Their production continues to require...

campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy. After the end of World War II in 1945, during which the US and USSR had been allies, the USSR installed satellite...

The history of Cuba during World War II begins in 1939. Because of Cuba's geographical position at the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico, Havana's role as...

of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II. He published his Umdeutung paper in 1925, a major reinterpretation...

amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity. This is a list of war crimes committed during World War II. The Axis powers (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy...

War (1936–1939), and the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Strategic bombing during World War II in Europe began on 1 September 1939 when Germany...

and Axis powers in World War II, which had evolved independently in a number of nations during the mid 1930s. At the outbreak of war in September 1939...

the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939, there was some significant collaborative development in heavy industry between German companies and their...

allies during the Cold War. During this same period, in addition to the American and Soviet nuclear stockpiles, other countries developed nuclear weapons...

that India has 180 nuclear weapons. India has conducted nuclear weapons tests in a pair of series namely Pokhran I and Pokhran II. India is a member of...

Japan participated in World War II from 1939 to 1945 as a member of the Axis. World War II and the Second Sino-Japanese War encapsulate a significant...

computer models of nuclear-winter scenarios, researchers use the conventional bombing of Hamburg, and the Hiroshima firestorm in World War II as example cases...

made during the 1930s, the United Kingdom began the world's first nuclear weapons research project, codenamed Tube Alloys, in 1941, during World War II. The...

aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two global superpowers, the United States (U.S.) and the Soviet Union (USSR). The aftermath of World War II was also...

poisoned weapons" in warfare. During World War II, Germany conducted an unsuccessful project to develop nuclear weapons. German scientists also did research...

During World War II, resistance movements operated in German-occupied Europe by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda, hiding...

production during World War II was the production or mobilization of arms, ammunition, personnel and financing by the belligerents of the war, from the...

of Japan, which occurred before any further nuclear weapons could be deployed. After World War II, nuclear weapons were also developed by the Soviet Union...

Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members were...

theaters of World War II and, together with anti-aircraft warfare, consumed a large fraction of the industrial output of the major powers. Germany and Japan...