At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, briefly became a furnace unlike any on Earth’s surface ...

A 14-year-old junior high school student in this western Japan city has turned the atomic bombing experience of her ...

A new report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), published May 4,  focuses on Iranian Majlis member Dr.

Experts warn any new Iran deal must ban plutonium reprocessing and expose covert pathways to nuclear weapons, citing risks ...

NAGASAKI -- A sweater knitted by a woman who was paralyzed due to the atomic bombing of this southwest Japan city has been ...

This week marks 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing an estimated 200,000 people. Historian Garrett Graff’s new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” draws ...

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Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

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