John Hersey

Revisiting John Hersey's groundbreaking "Hiroshima."

Remembering "Hiroshima," the story that changed everything.

Why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous.

On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors.

On Collier’s 1950 cover story, “Hiroshima, USA: Can Anything Be Done About It?”

A new book's insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by its own evidence.

‘Time’ magazine and the unraveling of the American consensus.

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it's long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts.

The first volume of Frederik Logevall’s biography of JFK reveals the scope of his ambition and the weakness of his political commitments.

Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan grappled with the contradictions of a role that is at once public and private, superficial and serious.