One of the “youngest atomic bomb survivors” will deliver a unique message when he speaks before students at the University of ...
This is the first of a three-part series on “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), Keiji Nakazawa’s manga series themed on the ...
For my family, Memorial Day is personal and real but for reasons not just commemorating America soldiers who died in battle ...
The register lists the names, ages and dates of death for 349,246 individuals confirmed to have died as of Aug. 5 last year.
Civilians have received benefits for work at the Nevada test site, but Cold War-era regulations still do not allow veterans ...
Long before atomic weapons shocked the world, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress had already transformed warfare across the ...
Shortly after dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, Capt. Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, wrote in his notebook that the clouds below him were dispersing and the weather looked good for the rest of the ...
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, ...
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. That first-ever use of an atomic weapon killed an estimated 140,000 people in all, most of whom were civilians. Three ...