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.

More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons program.

The United States had dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, killing more than 100,000 people and crushing much of the city Aug. 6, 1945. Nagasaki was hit three days later.

The Trinity test—the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project.

Over 35 attendees came to listen to North Central Texas College History Professor Charles Adams’ lecture on the making of the atomic bomb and its usage Wednesday, the first open-to-the-public lecture ...

Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to ...

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 ...

In August 1942, the US officially launches a top-secret programme to develop an atomic bomb. The project, which had been approved the previous year, comes to be known as the "Manhattan Project".

I challenged him. “You have to understand, honey,” he replied, “that we thought the Nazis were working to develop the bomb, too. Our whole rationale was to beat them to it.” He was equally proud of ...

A historical document is up for auction through Bonhams: Einstein's most thorough statement on his involvement with the atomic bomb, expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000 when bidding ...

Bill to Compensate Radiation Fallout Victims of Atom Bomb Tests Allowed to Expire This July 16, 1945, file photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working on a multiyear project to remove the elevated radiation wastes from the Niagara site and ultimately leave the 191 acres suitable for industrial use.