Harriet Alida Lye opens “Let It Destroy You,” her sophomore novel, with a confidently dramatic flourish. At 9:07 p.m. on August 12, 1945 a scientist waits in a holding cell. As night encroaches, he ...

She doesn't remember the actual blast from an atomic bomb. Sixty years ago, on March 11, 1958, an Air Force bomber dropped a nuclear weapon on a farm in the rural Mars Bluff community outside ...

To end it, the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen was about to be unleashed, a watershed in world history: the atomic bomb. The bomb’s colossal destructive power comes from the vast ...

“Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by ... “the father of the atomic bomb” for leading ...