An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb,” Garrett M. Graff skillfully tells both. The power of ...

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

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 ...

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.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park, with sites in three time zones, tells the complex story of the making of the ...

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 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity Site — now in the northern part of White Sands Missile Range — took place ...

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 ...

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 ...