An oral history of the atomic bomb detonations 80 years ago leads this week's list of publishing highlights, which also ...

And there is much drama in Atomic Bill and the Payment Du e. It’s program notes speak of it as “an Oppenheimer -adjacent true story,” referring to the film about J. Robert Oppenheimer focusing on his ...

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ended WWII, but took thousands of civilian lives. On August 6, 1945, the bomb was dropped on the city.

It’s been 80 years since the United States detonated atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in more than 200,000 deaths. Garrett Graff’s new book The Devil Reached Toward the Sky is an ...

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

On this day in 1956, Calder Hall became the first nuclear power station to supply domestic electricity, so what went wrong?

Historian Richard Overy explains how the US firebombing of Japanese cities in 1945 killed more civilians than Hiroshima and ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, a Harvard-education theoretical physicist, was tasked by the U.S. government in 1942 with leading the ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

We finally know the true identity of the woman behind the iconic “Miss Atomic Bomb” photo. After 25 years of investigation, the Atomic Museum said in a news release that founding museum member ...

Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest natural disasters in US history, made its landfall on August 29, 2005. More than 1,800 people lost their lives, while over a million others were displaced from ...