This week in C-SPAN's Lectures and History podcast feed, historian Garrick Graff discusses

his new oral history book, The Devil Reach Toward the Sky. It's about the development of the

atomic bomb in 1945. August 2025 marks 80 years since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Graff's book weaves together the voices of well-known figures like Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, alongside a diverse

range of others who witnessed the bomb's creation and deployment firsthand. A note to our listeners,

with the academic year now wrapped, lectures in history will pause new episodes until September.

Over the summer, we'll revisit some of our most engaging past lectures and other history-focused content.

This episode was recorded for American History TV. More in a moment.

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Now today, July 16th marks the 80th anniversary since the first ever detonation of a nuclear device

when the United States conducted the Trinity test in the New Mexico Desert.

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