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 ...

Eighty years ago this week, the world passed into a terrifying new age. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, mushroom clouds announced that humans not only could slaughter each other in staggering ...

John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan with in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged U.S. government’s version of its atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, showing the ...

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 ...

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.

In August of 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan—the only time in history that nuclear weapons have been used in combat. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 ...

The story of the Atomic Age’s start is a fascinating one about the power of invention and a chilling one about its consequences. In “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and ...

Arriving on the 80th anniversary of America dropping atomic bombs on Japan, Ghosts of Hiroshima by author Charles Pellegrino is a stunning work of history. The book takes a deeply reported, humanistic ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This month marked the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, helping bring an end to World War II. Myra Mansfield shares an excerpt of her ...

A 100-ton explosive test occurred at Trinity Site on May 7, 1945, as a rehearsal for the atomic bomb test. The 100-ton test was largely unnoticed, unlike the July 16 atomic bomb test which was seen as ...