The time certainly looks ripe for not one but two books on the dropping of the very first atomic bomb, on Aug. 6, 1945, with Garrett Graff’s “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” and Iain MacGregor’s ...

Sunday, Aug. 6, 1945, 8:15 am. A 12-year-old girl was walking to her seijinshiki ceremony, a traditional Japanese rite of ...

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.

Oak Ridge mayor says day is for remembrance, reflection and hope between the U.S. and Japan, two countries that once were at war and now are allies.

The 580-square-mile Hanford site adjacent to Richland was left contaminated by the past production of plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program in World War II and the Cold War, and ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Jan. 6, 2010 -- The only person officially recognized as having been twice in the bull's eye of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has died. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, aged 93, passed away Monday.