History’s simple telling is that the United States unleashed the two most lethal weapons of World War Two or any other war ...

In “The Power of Nuclear,” Dutch journalist Marco Visscher takes aim at fears and misconceptions about atomic energy.

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos In 1932, James Chadwick discovered the neutron, a small atomic particle with mass but no charge.