Arthur Compton, chancellor of Washington University, listens to Enrico Fermi, builder of the first atomic pile, as he speaks at the 10th anniversary of the Atomic Age at the University of Chicago ...

Godzilla may get all the glory, but they're far from the only atomic-age movie monster that should be celebrated.

He tracked down the photographer and interviewed former showgirls who confirmed Miss Atomic Bomb’s stage name. But the woman’s real name still eluded him.

The U.S. working delegate on the Atomic Energy Commission, gentle, saturnine Frederick H. Osborn, wasted no time on doubtful optimism. The 58-year-old geneticist and wartime major general (morale ...

One year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly ...

What does it take to reverse stagnation? How difficult a task? America is finding out when it comes to one particular sector: nuclear energy. The Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan, shut ...

In an excerpt from his 1948 essay ‘On Living in an Atomic Age,’ C.S. Lewis reminds us that death has always been one of life’s few certainties — and calls Christians to live with faith ...

The Atomic Age introduced a whole new level of paranoia to the world. Whether it was the threat of nuclear war replete with atomic bombs wiping out civilization or worry about nuclear power, the ...

"At Play in the Atomic Age" which opens at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History on Saturday, May 27. The exhibit will run through Dec. 31.

He’s a historian and a retired scientist who got his start during the atomic age, a complicated moment in American history when the line was blurred between fear and fascination with nuclear power.

Though the Atomic Age was born under the stands of the University of Chicago’s football stadium on Dec. 2, 1942, that milestone wasn’t reported in the next morning’s Tribune, or any other ...