Hiroshima

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…

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Interview with the Science Writer Who Predicted the Pandemic 8 Years Ago (thebulletin.org) Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday June 13, 2020 @05:34PM from the being-prepared dept. In 1945, after atomic bomb detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, several former Manhattan Project scientists founded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Publishing continuously…

Click here to read the full article.The B83 is one of two so-called “dumb” or unguided nuclear bombs that the United States maintains as a part of its post-Cold War Enduring Stockpile arsenal. Along with intercontinental ballistic missiles and other smaller nuclear-capable bombs, stocks of the B83 are kept in…

AbstractDespite decades of laboratory, epidemiological and clinical research, breast cancer incidence continues to rise. Breast cancer remains the leading cancer-related cause of disease burden for women, affecting one in 20 globally and as many as one in eight in high-income countries. Reducing breast cancer incidence will likely require both a…