HANDLE BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. IT WAS 80 YEARS AGO TODAY, THE U.S. DROPPED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB ON THE JAPANESE CITY OF HIROSHIMA. THREE DAYS LATER, A SECOND BOMB WAS DROPPED ON NAGASAKI. THEY ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Few names are as closely linked with the atomic bomb as Albert Einstein's. Mention nuclear weapons and, sooner or later, ...

HIROSHIMA -- Graduate students at Germany's prestigious University of Bonn have been translating video testimonies by atomic bomb survivors from Hiros･･･ ...

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, ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

I was sitting with an old soldier named Ray Gallagher. He held in his hands a small doll. The doll’s name was Marianne and it was the doll that he took with him to war. It had been given to him by his ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On Tinian Island in the Pacific Ocean at 0030 hours on August 8, 1945, ...

His latest book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making & Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb, came out from Avid Reader Press (Simon & Schuster) on July 24, 2025, between the 80th ...

Eighty years ago this week, the world passed into a terrifying new age. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, mushroom clouds announced that humans not only could slaughter each other in staggering ...

As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, the fight over our past has moved from school textbooks to the signs in our ...

The first full-scale biography of the "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the fire of the sun for his country in time of war. After ...