atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

A new book's insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by its own evidence.

The movie has no interest in reducing the atomic bombings to a trivializing, exploitative spectacle, despite what some would want.

The Truman administration launched a PR campaign to inflate casualty numbers to justify the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

On the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan, we should remember that deploying the bomb wasn’t necessary to win the war.

American leaders called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki our 'least abhorrent choice,' but there were alternatives to the nuclear attacks.

On this date 78 years ago, the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Survivors involuntarily provided key medical data for years, without receiving any help.

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. came with censorship and obfuscation about the effects of the radiation on those who were exposed.

Among the nearly half a million atomic bomb victims and survivors were thousands of Japanese American citizens of the United States.

On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors.

How many people really died because of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings? It’s complicated. There are at least two credible answers.

Revisiting John Hersey's groundbreaking "Hiroshima."

As we approach the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings, we're going to see a lot of journalistic takes on them — many of them totally wrong.

Remembering "Hiroshima," the story that changed everything.

Two of the earliest films to depict the bombing of Hiroshima show how politics shapes national mourning.

A set of speech drafts suggests that Truman may not have fully understood the implications of dropping an atomic bomb on the city.

A "yearbook" documents the U.S. military occupation of Nagasaki in the aftermath of the atomic bomb.

Why was a second bomb used against Japan, so soon after Hiroshima? A review of several theories.

A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors.

On Cormac McCarthy.

A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths.