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” ...
A Japanese filmmaker has taken up the story of an atomic bomb survivor whose memory she is determined to honor. Director ...
Out of this surreal convergence of spectacle and science emerged one of the most striking and unsettling cultural icons 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 ...
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 ...