Crucial contributions

How the top-secret Manhattan Project saw the invention of the atomic bomb, which culminated in the end of one war and the beginning of another

The atomic bombings Eighty years ago, the ...

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

Senkichi Awaya was sitting in his dining room at the mayor’s residence in Hiroshima as the clocked ticked round to 8.15am on 6 August 1945. His teenage son Shinobu, and granddaughter Ayako, refugees f

Eighty years after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki amid the rationale that it would save lives, a new book tells the sur vivors’ stories

The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by an American B-29 bomber, preceding the country’s capitulation in WWII. Here navigator Theodore Van Kirk recalls his experience of the day that changed history