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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

As we move into its 81st year, one wonders whether the long duration of the Nuclear Age that has avoided nuclear war has been ...