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One of the implications of the Harmon report, that 133 atomic bombs were not enough to break the Soviet Union, may have fed into the pressure for the hydrogen-bomb or “super” that accelerated after the Soviets tested an atomic device in August 1949.

Young black demonstrators in the image are lined up outside the theater while a group of white teenage boys make a line in front of them.

Promotes the Woman's Party which advocates equality "in all laws and customs". Includes text from the Declaration of Sentiments adopted at Seneca Falls Convention, 1848, and the resolutions adopted at that convention.

Medha Karve was born in Mumbai, India in 1957 to parents of first-generation Indian-Americans. When she was 9 years old, her father immigrated to the US as a scientist at Yale University with his family and was one of the first scientists to study…

Analyzing the aftermath of areas around Chernobyl using satellite imaging.

The first systematic effort to estimate the destruction to the Soviet Union that a U.S. atomic attack would cause and the extent to which the destruction would be decisive to the outcome of a U.S.-Soviet war.

Translation:
"The defeat of Germany"
"Most of the world's nations today share a state of happiness and joy due to what was announced of Germany's defeat. Except that Japan is not one of those happy, joyful nations because the defeat of their…

Handwritten arrest record for Huldah Elizabeth Taylor on May 15, 1963 for trespassing during at Greensboro, North Carolina sit-in demonstration.

Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting combat air patrol intercepting the incoming Japanese dive bomber raid on USS Yorktown (CV-5), at about noon on 4 June 1942.