Aug. 6, 2025, 8:15 am. The radios in every car driving through Hiroshima, Japan sound a long siren. Eighty years ago at that ...

A scientist on the University of Chicago's Manhattan Project team stored radioactive waste from his other, peace-time projects in the basement.

This past week marked two monumental but very different anniversaries — the surrender of Japan in World War 2 and the publication of George Orwell’s immensely powerful allegory, Animal Farm.

NPR marks World Photography Day with images of everyday moments of gathering from communities across the U.S. taken by ...

This week marks eight decades since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, devastating the two cities, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, and ...