“The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” focuses not just on the voices of scientists like Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller.

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 ...

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

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.

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.

It is time to become a nation that forges nuclear agreements, employs diplomacy, recognizes nuclear war is not winnable and works toward disarmament.

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 ...

TULAROSA — Mary Riseley walked through glowing rows of luminarias looking for her mother’s name at a vigil for New Mexico downwinders Wednesday, 80 years to the day after the ...