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An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb,” Garrett M. Graff skillfully tells both. The power 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 ...
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.
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.
Rep. Stansbury interviews the Tularosa Downwinders, whose lives were forever impacted by the U.S. government's atomic bomb testing at the Trinity Site in 1945. For decades, these families fought ...