Hiroshima

Seventy-five years after two nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan — killing hundreds of thousands of people in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — one small community in the Northwest Territories is still haunted by its connection to the blasts. Cindy Gilday, an environmentalist and Indigenous rights activist, is still concerned about…

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Publishedduration4 days agoOn 6 and 9 August, it will be 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki towards the end of World War Two.image copyrightGetty Imagesimage captionLanterns are seen on the Motoyasu river beside the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima in…

On August 6, 1945, President Harry S. Truman faced the task of telling the American public, the press, and the world, that America’s war against fascism had culminated in exploding a new weapon of extraordinary destructive power over a Japanese city.It was vital that this event be understood as a…

This Thursday, August 6, will mark the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, an event that would lead to Japan’s surrender and the end of World War II, a global conflagration which, over six blood-filled years, had cost 75 million lives and inflicted untold misery and devastation on millions…

Updated / Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 10:43 The plaintiffs were in areas showered in radioactive 'black rain' following the attack A Hiroshima court issued a rare ruling expanding the designation of atomic bomb survivors to include more people hit by radioactive "black rain", 75 years after the US nuclear attack…

Main Blog > Investigating The Mysterious Tunguska Event On one June morning in the year 1908, something bright and hot suddenly appeared in the skies over a forest in the Siberian Taiga. It was so hot that a hunter near the Middle Tunguska River tore his shirt, as he thought…

Click here to read the full article.The Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber achieved fame—and infamy—for its role in the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Developing the huge bombers, which could lug heavy bomb loads over long distances at high altitudes and speeds, amounted to the…

By William J. Perry and Tom Z. Collina The current debate about how President Trump is abusing his role as commander in chief has an even darker, nuclear dimension. If the president can misuse his authority to deploy troops against peaceful American protesters, might he also mishandle his authority to…

Click here to read the full article.Here's What You Need To Remember: Some argue that Truman was haunted by estimates that Operation Downfall -- the proposed invasion of Japan in 1945 -- would cost a million American casualties.One of the most controversial decisions in history was President Harry Truman's decision to…