Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to ...

In 1947, Kix cereal ran a promotion for an "Atomic Bomb Ring" that contained radioactive polonium-210, one of the deadliest ...

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

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the birthplace of the bomb, the legacy of the Manhattan Project is still framed as ...

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

Oppenheimer was first a brilliant scientist, then a war hero, then a political traitor, then a nobody, then a martyr, now a ...

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 ...

We must rid ourselves of nuclear weapons or lose life as we know it on this planet, the Hampton Roads Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’s Rev. Julia Dorsey Loomis and Steve Baggarly write ...