It's been just about 80 years since President Truman told the nation, August 6, 1945... (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) HARRY S TRUMAN: A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on ...

As the title implies, Iain MacGregor’s The Hiroshima Men is a people-centric history of the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945.

The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ultimately led to the end of World War II. The motivation and secrecy ...

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 ...

This oral history is adapted from Garrett M. Graff’s book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb,” which published on Tuesday. Eighty years ...

After three decades of uneasy slumber since the end of the Cold War, atomic weapons are back in the headlines. There were Vladimir Putin’s threats to use them in Ukraine or send them up into space.