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 of...

Elger helped make parts for atom bomb By ANA CABAN AND NANCY BROME of the Journal Sentinel staff Thursday, August 23, 2001 Before taking over his father's general store, where he had worked as a youngster, Percy Elger worked in...

JAPAN'S Prime Minister, Tsutomu Hata, yesterday acknowledged for the first time that his country was able to make nuclear weapons, a statement that will be taken in east Asia as a hint that circumstances could force it to do so. "It is certainly...

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...