At Hanford Reach, the Steele family has bridged partisan divides for decades to ensure that this free-flowing stretch 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.

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 ...

A nuclear chemist once 'ate uranium' while on camera to prove the substance was harmless. The nuclear industry is certainly a much-talked-about one ever since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 which ...

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