J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York in 1904. He was the son of first-generation Jewish immigrants who came to America ...

This was the year in which H G Wells published The World Set Free, a speculative novel that envisioned nuclear warfare and coined the term “atomic bomb”. Wells wrote the book in Switzerland ...

HIROSHIMA--Shooting will begin next year for a movie portraying the bond between the U.S. author of the bestseller “Hiroshima” and an atomic bomb survivor featured in the book. John Hersey was ...