Nichols: “The most important military effect was that it required only two atomic bombs to end the war. The Planned invasion ...

The Hanford Reach became a national monument a quarter-century ago. That designation along with citizen-led, ...

The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ...

REACH museum hosted an event celebrating the Manhattan project, an atomic bombing of Japan that was created by the Hanford ...

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.

There are not many people that have survived a nuclear attack. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only person that officially survived ...

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

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

Deep beneath the surface of World War II's chaos, the United States was developing a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen—The Manhattan Project. Hidden across secret facilities in Los Alamos ...

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 ...

An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb” tells the story of the atomic bomb and its consequences. The ...