The filmmakers behind the new PBS documentary “Bombshell” spoke to NYU students and faculty after a screening in the Arthur L ...
The Cold War on MSN
The era of dawn bomb parties and mushroom cloud tourism
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” ...
Bombshell explores how the U.S. manipulated the narrative about the impact of the WWII bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how a group of journalists pushed back. An in-depth look at the efforts of ...
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 ...
Shigeaki Mori, a Japanese atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima and a historian but best known for a big hug he was given by then U.S. President Barack Obama during his historic visit to the city a decade ...
The Aviationist on MSN
The B-29 Goes Atomic: A Look at Operation Silverplate
Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82', was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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