Richard Rhodes emerged as one of the major nonfiction artists of this age with The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), his sprawling, 886-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning saga that chronicles what he described in a 1994 interview as the "great epic tragedy...

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The Pulitzer Prize awarded yesterday to Richard Rhodes for "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" ratifies a conviction Rhodes has been harboring for most of his life as a writer: that the creation and development of the first nuclear weapons is "the great epic...

Paul Tibbets, who etched his mother's name — Enola Gay — into history on the nose of the B-29 bomber he flew to drop the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, died Thursday after six decades of steadfastly defending the mission. He was 92.Throughout his life, Tibbets...

When Paul Tibbets enlisted in the Army Air Corps, nuclear fission had not even been discovered, but it would fall upon him to unleash its staggering power in war for the first time.If dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, weighed heavily on the pilot...