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After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How Allied Media Reported on the Atomic Bombs’ Devastation

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How Allied Media Reported on the Atomic Bombs’ Devastation

An Oral History of the Coverage What the United States Attempted to Cover Up

By Garrett M. Graff | August 20, 2025

Hiroshima at Eighty: Contemporary Literature as a Product of the Post-Nuclear World

Hiroshima at Eighty: Contemporary Literature as a Product of the Post-Nuclear World

Ed Simon Considers the Enduring Impact of the Atomic Bomb on Artistic and Literary Production

By Ed Simon | August 18, 2025

Inside the Days, Hours and Minutes Leading Up to the Hiroshima Bombing

Inside the Days, Hours and Minutes Leading Up to the Hiroshima Bombing

Iain MacGregor on the Preparation and Aftershocks of the Attack That Marked the Beginning of the Nuclear Age

By Iain MacGregor | July 24, 2025

Race Made Radioactive: How Yuko Tsushima Fused Multiracial Identity and Military Occupation

Race Made Radioactive: How Yuko Tsushima Fused Multiracial Identity and Military Occupation

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda on Translating the Nuclear Novel “Wildcat Dome”

By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda | March 18, 2025

How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

Dorian Lynskey on Pierrepoint B. Noyes, H.G. Wells, and the “Superweapons” of Early Science-Fiction

By Dorian Lynskey | January 28, 2025

Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

The Author of “Question 7” Remembers His Father’s Imprisonment at Ohama Camp

By Richard Flanagan | September 16, 2024

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Reporting on Human Suffering in COVID Times Means Looking to the Past

By Keen On | January 7, 2021

The New Yorker Article Heard Round the World

By Greg Mitchell | July 2, 2020

The Poetic Half-Life of One Family's Nuclear History

The Poetic Half-Life of One Family's Nuclear History

Tyler Mills on Her Grandfather's Role in the Bombing of Nagasaki

By Tyler Mills | June 5, 2019

How John Hersey Revealed the Horrors of the Atomic Bomb to the US

How John Hersey Revealed the Horrors of the Atomic Bomb to the US

Remembering Hiroshima, the Story That Changed Everything

By Jeremy Treglown | April 23, 2019

New York City, the Perfect Setting for a Fictional Cold War Strike

New York City, the Perfect Setting for a Fictional Cold War Strike

On Collier's 1950 Cover Story, “Hiroshima, USA: Can Anything Be Done About It?”

By Sara Blair | June 13, 2018

Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the Meaning of

Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the Meaning of "Survivor"

“There is No Payment That Could Begin to Make Up for Any of It”

By Elizabeth Rosner | September 15, 2017

From Triumph to Terror: How America Grappled with the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

From Triumph to Terror: How America Grappled with the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

Part III of the Life and Times of James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist

By Jennet Conant | September 14, 2017

Fire, Fury, and America's Failure to Learn From the Past

Fire, Fury, and America's Failure to Learn From the Past

David L. Ulin on Revisiting Hiroshima, and the Dark, Empty Rhetoric of the President

By David L. Ulin | August 16, 2017

What Happens When You Break Into America's Nuclear Bomb Factory

What Happens When You Break Into America's Nuclear Bomb Factory

On Hearing the Lord's Call to Turn Swords Into Ploughshares

By Dan Zak | July 12, 2016