It's been just about 80 years since President Truman told the nation, August 6, 1945... (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) HARRY S TRUMAN: A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on ...

The story of the Atomic Age's start is a fascinating one about the power of invention and a chilling one about its consequences. In “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and ...

The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ultimately led to the end of World War II. The motivation and secrecy ...

It’s been 80 years since the United States detonated atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in more than 200,000 deaths. Garrett Graff’s new book The Devil Reached Toward the Sky is an ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision ...

UC Santa Barbara Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa has been awarded the Robert Ferrell Book Prize, the most prestigious award given by the Society of Historians for Foreign Relations, for "Racing the Enemy: ...

Aug. 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius ...