This documentary explores how the atomic bomb reshaped American society during the Cold War. In the 1950s, cities like Las Vegas turned nuclear testing into tourist spectacles, marketing “atomic” ...

Out of this surreal convergence of spectacle and science emerged one of the most striking and unsettling cultural icons of ...

Planning a movie night with 'Hiroshima: A Document of the Atomic Bombing' without the hassle? Pinpointing where to stream, rent, buy, or watch how to watch this film can be confusing so we at ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/how-press-reported-atomic-bomb/ The New York Times proudly touted its exclusive coverage of the atomic bomb ...

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 ...

A 110-degree day in Las Vegas, a city dedicated to entertainment and capitalism, seems a strange place to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yet Las Vegas has its ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

The 2023 film 'Oppenheimer' depicts the life of American physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), who led the development of nuclear weapons during World War II. The following March, it won ...