It was two years ago that the Oscar-winning blockbuster 'Oppenheimer' sent the message that it was the Americans, or rather one American in particular, who was responsible for the atomic explosion ...

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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, ...

Introduction -- Building the bomb -- Controlling the bomb -- Racing with the bomb -- Why states want nuclear weapons--and why they don't -- Today's nuclear world -- The new U.S. policy -- The good ...