On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt ...

As the title implies, Iain MacGregor’s The Hiroshima Men is a people-centric history of the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945.

The atomic bomb proved to be the most devastating weapon used in any war, past or present, but was the United States ...

An eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, along with some remarkably prescient observations about what they could mean for future superpower rivalries.

An atomic bomb is up for auction. An original 1945 training version of the devastating weapon "Little Boy" is going under the ...

Following the horrifying nuclear detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union initially lagged in the atomic arms race. However, thanks to successful, dedicated espionage activities, the ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival.

An original 1945 training version of the devastating weapon "Little Boy" is going under the hammer. Dallas-based Heritage ...

IT: Welcome to Derry features some very unsettling PSAs throughout its episodes — but are they real? Here's the story about ...

The U.S. and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests ...

Generations of Chicagoans have known Bill Kurtis in many different ways — as a television journalist, documentary filmmaker, ...

There are now about four hundred nuclear power plants worldwide, in over thirty countries on five continents, with sixty more ...