Hiroshima

The Japanese film poster for I Live in Fear (1955), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. One of the first Japanese commercial features to directly address the fear of nuclear holocaust and the implications of the atom bomb, Record of a Living Being, which is better known as…

On what would otherwise be a solemn year of remembrance to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States is shaking up the status quo in regards to nuclear weapons — and raising fears of a new arms race, this one with China.From…

The Tunguska event, a seismic blast that rocked a remote Siberian forest more than a century ago, is believed to have been caused by a meteor that exploded before it hit the ground. A new study sheds more light on the asteroid, noting it may have never actually hit Earth at…

Prior to the summer of 1941, the United States Marine Corps did not want them. The Navy barely tolerated them in restricted capacities as cooks, waiters, servants for officers, and dockside stevedores. The Army, too, thought they were only good enough to tackle menial duties and perform manual labor. On…

As both the Human League and OMD are loathe to admit, it was Gary Numan who got there first in the summer of 1979. Here he was, as leader of former punk band Tubeway Army, fronting a UK number one single driven by synthesizers. He sang it in a robotic…

By Magnus onyibe run-away COVID-19 patientTo avert community spread of the coronavirus, on March 29, president Muhammadu Buhari locked down the FCT, Lagos and Ogun states for 14 days. On Monday , April 27th , mr president announced the extension of the shut down by another two weeks to May…

Every Memorial Day for the last 10 years, and on other summer days, I stop by two graves in a south Minneapolis cemetery — my father’s and Jimmy’s. On the Thursday before Memorial Day I brought a pot of flowers to the grave of Carl W. Anderson, my father, good…

George Sterling received a teletype message from the War Department just after 5:15 am on August 15, 1945. Less than 45 minutes later, Sterling, chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Radio Intelligence Division (RID), handed a message to the RID’s teletype (TWX) operator to send to the monitoring station in…

Similarities between a cyber-attack and a WMD attack push countries into a cyber arms race like the one between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War.By Julien Chesaux, Cyber Security ConsultantDifferent Types for Different MissionsA WMD is a powerful weapon that is capable of a high order of…

The destruction caused by the cataclysmic Mount St Helens eruption 40 years ago may not be over, experts have warned, as a natural dam created from the explosion's debris threatens to collapse.In what was one of the largest debris avalanches ever recorded and the worst in US history, 1,300ft of…