The filmmakers behind the new PBS documentary “Bombshell” spoke to NYU students and faculty after a screening in the Arthur L ...
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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” ...
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 ...
Streaming platforms for Hiroshima: A Document of the Atomic Bombing haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.
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 ...
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