At a time when nuclear dangers are not just rising, but multiplying, we need all hands on deck in sounding the alarm and advocating for abolition of nuclear weapons. Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter ...

On April 30, 1975, the most divisive war in American history came to an end. Or so we thought at the time. The war's painful schisms were personal for me. I am the son of the late Robert S. McNamara, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in Cabinet Room meeting. Credit: Yoichi Okamoto/U.S. National Archives and Records Administration A few months ago I had one of my ...

He turned around Ford Motor Company and tried to help the world's poor as head of the World Bank. Yet, for many critics of the Vietnam War, Robert McNamara's legacy will be as the symbol of a failed ...

At the start of The Fog of War, the brilliant new documentary from director Errol Morris, we see a composed, sharply groomed and middle-aged Robert McNamara, preparing to brief the press on the ...

While late President John F. Kennedy's affairs, including his fling with Marilyn Monroe, have long been common knowledge, a new book, Passion on the Potomac, has blown the lid off poised First Lady ...

WASHINGTON — Robert S. McNamara, the brainy Pentagon chief who directed the escalation of the Vietnam War despite private doubts the war was winnable or worth fighting, died Monday at 93. McNamara ...