The world’s first production scale reactor built at the Hanford nuclear site near Richland in Eastern Washington changed the ...

The post Neal Stephenson's <i>Polostan</i> Is a Compact Epic About Communism, Science, and the Dawn of the Atomic Age ...

This is where the world’s first atomic ...

The average age of hibakusha is now over 85, and many of their organizations have either suspended or ceased their activities ...

To some extent, the book's sense of scale is a result of the subject matter: Polostan is a story about the dawn of the atomic age. Set largely in the 1930s, it sweeps across the Soviet Union and ...

ANSTO – the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation – recently celebrated 70 years since Australia’s nuclear ...

For many Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their relatives, Friday’s awarding of ...

They’re increasingly worried about their old age and the limited time to convey the firsthand horror they witnessed 79 years ...

Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors, has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize ... Hibakushi co-head Toshiyuki Mimaki, who recalled seeing Hiroshima’s ...

This destination is overshadowed by its atomic bombing, but don’t be misled: Nagasaki is one of Japan’s most laid-back and ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series on “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), Keiji Nakazawa’s manga series themed on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which began running in ...