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 ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably ...

When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima, just south of Hiroshima. Decades later, people in the ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...

Our Fight: Erie in World War II Episode 16: Fat Man and Little Boy Just three months after the end of the war in Europe, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks ...

Editor’s note: Daily Item reporter Rick Dandes’ father was aboard a naval vessel headed for Japan as a combat soldier in the invading force during World War II when the invasion was called off. Eighty ...

The only man to have survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs dies at 93. TOKYO, Jan. 6, 2010 -- The only person officially recognized as having been twice in the bull's eye of atomic bombs in ...