atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk.

"The Day After Trinity" and "The Strangest Dream" evacuate the mythical tropes of the tortured genius biopic that Hollywood loves to rehearse.

On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”

Watching 'Oppenheimer' with the author of a definitive account of the Manhattan Project.

The "father of the atomic bomb" has long been misunderstood. Will the new film finally get J. Robert Oppenheimer right?

The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.

‘Time’ magazine and the unraveling of the American consensus.

A new history of the environmental movement places too much emphasis on famous figures like Rachel Carson and shies away from confronting failures.

Focusing on a virus’s origins encourages individualized shame while ignoring the broader societal factors that contribute to a disease’s transmission.

“Paper City” explores the forgotten firebombing of Japan’s capital.

Throughout history, the family bomb shelter has reflected the shifting optimism, anxieties, and cynicism of the nuclear age.

Seeing the war from the perspective of citizens of U.S. colonies sheds new light on the impact of World War II.

Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.

Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water and people.

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it's long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts.

Lawrence Matsuda talks about his family history, his experiences of discrimination, and his work in bilingual and Asian American representation in education.

Old feuds remind us that history is continually revised, driven by new evidence and present-day imperatives.

After the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945, Mochitsura Hashimoto, a Japanese sub commander, pushed to exonerate Navy Capt. Charles McVay.

Only a certain kind of person, both foolish and resolute, would choose to study a subject so extensive, yet so restrictive, as the secrets of nuclear weapons.