Author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles a diverse range of players in his latest book about the first atomic bomb used in warfare. MacGregor uses visually enticing description and lively ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls.

We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.

Highlights this week include playwright Charles Randolph Wright’s hip hop-themed interracial love story and “The Gospel at ...

Key Takeaways Children who lived closer to Coldwater Creek had a higher cancer risk later in lifeThe area was polluted by nuclear waste during World War II from an atomic bombPeople who lived within ...

The first atomic bomb was tested that morning, the result of the U.S. Manhattan Project to develop the ultimate weapon. Just weeks later the U.S. would drop atomic bombs on Japan, destroying the ...

Georgia has detained two people for handling and attempting to sell $3 million worth of uranium which could have been used to make a deadly bomb, the national security service said on Thursday. The ...

On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of ...

Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico Catholic bishops, stood poised to venture into the White Sands Missile Range with plans to pray for peace and the ...

Emerging dangers are reshaping the landscape of nuclear deterrence and increasing the threat of mutual annihilation.

The trailer for the book "Ghosts of Hiroshima," narrated by Martin Sheen, is here. It will be made into a film by James ...

More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons ...