The summer’s most popular history-related film is Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer, about the theoretical physicist and atomic bomb mastermind J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie comes 78 ...

This handout picture taken on August 6, 1945 by U.S. Army and released from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum shows a mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb dropped by B-29 bomber Enola Gay over the city of ...

On this day 73 years ago, the Tokyo Stock Exchange closed following the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki. Where The Market Was The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 165.14 and the S&P 500 traded at 14.83 ...

Against this backdrop, I can’t stop thinking about a scene in the new film “A House of Dynamite.” A clean-cut U.S. Navy ...

Caleb Dixon, Hashaam Sheikh, and Javi Guerr from Texas won the junior prize for their group documentary, “The Destroyer of ...

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 ...

Robert J. Sawyer can trace the origins of his newest novel, The Oppenheimer Alternative, back to a very specific source. But the prolific science-fiction writer has strong memories of watching an ...

It was two years ago that the Oscar-winning blockbuster 'Oppenheimer' sent the message that it was the Americans, or rather one American in particular, who was responsible for the atomic explosion ...

A recent study has unveiled a 10,000-year-old impact crater in China, providing evidence of a colossal meteorite strike that ...