Garrett Graff’s “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” and Iain MacGregor’s “The Hiroshima Men.” ...

Next time, it could be an instrument in the hands of an irrational regime, or rival nation bent on the destruction of ...

The late Ray Gallagher of Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood was an assistant flight engineer on the B-29 that dropped the bomb ...

A dawn ceremony is planned for Aug. 6, as Oak Ridge remembers the dropping of the first atomic bomb in 1945.

Opinion: 80 years later, there is no certainty another approach would have abruptly ended hostilities and spared substantial American lives.

The White House has now fully embraced bomb-prone nuclear fuel technology. This should stop before an arms race, atomic ...

Recent events in Iran demonstrate that dropping “bunker buster” bombs on nuclear plants is not an ideal, or even necessarily ...

Next week marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Garrett Graff about his book "The Devil Reached Toward The Sky," which recounts the bomb's creation.

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of plague, chaos, and impoverishment. But not every case of scientific decline has ...

On June 23, 1944, the Japanese submarine I-52 sailed through the mid-Atlantic with a mission that could shift the tides of ...

The 80th anniversary of the Owl Bar and Café was celebrated not just as a milestone for the restaurant — but as a tribute to the people who made it what it is. Janice Baca Argabright, had a career as ...

A 100-year-old person is called a centenarian, though some people have also called this 100-year-old a centurion, which means ...