Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

After spending most of the three-hour film either missing or silent, Malek’s character delivers a stunning monologue that marks the actor’s greatest performance in years.

Christopher Nolan’s epic film builds to the civilization-changing test of the first atomic bomb. Here’s our deep-dive into every harrowing, epic moment of the dazzling sequence.

The 1980s anime “Barefoot Gen” tells the story of the bombing on Hiroshima exactly 40 years before Christopher Nolan’s film about the man who made the horrendous weapon itself.

The history of scientific breakthroughs teaches the same lesson over and over: Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.

On March 11, 1958, the Gregg family was going about their business when a malfunction in a B-47 flying overhead caused the atomic bomb on board to drop on to their S.C. backyard.

After the bomb dropped 75 years ago, U.S. officials took pains to spin and censor the press, and control the atomic narrative, to this day.