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.

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 ...

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

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

The National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas documents the history of nuclear testing at the National Nevada Security Site, including a replica of the 1950s test dummies used at the site, a ...

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

President Donald Trump recently proposed a budget for cleaning up hazardous waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation that’s ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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

August 9, 1945 marks the day when the US dropped its second atomic bomb, the ‘Fat Man’, on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, ...

Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and wounded as a result of the bombings, but true counts are difficult to estimate. A contemporary source suggests 135,000 were killed or injured in ...