On one of the episodes of Manhattan, there was the Secretary of War coming in to inspect the progress of the Manhattan Project in the New Mexico base.
I have heard of the Department of War before, but I used to think that it was created as a separate department from Department of Defense in order to handle the involvement of the United States in both WW1 and WW2.
Oh dear, I was wrong.
Apparently, up until 1947, the Department of Defense was called the Department of War.
I have always wondered why the United States has been embroiled in a war elsewhere in the world for most of its existence, but now I finally understood.
Semantics matters, people.
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