Hiroshima

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…

The eruption of Mount St. Helens 40 years ago today still provides an amazing opportunity for scientists to study the effects of a catastrophe. The event on May 18, 1980, is often regarded as one of the most significant geologic events of the twentieth century. The incredible lessons are as…

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1980 eruption of Mount St. HelensIn 1980, a major volcanic eruption occurred at Mount St. Helens, a volcano located in Washington, in the United States. The eruption (which was a VEI 5 event) was the only significant one to occur in the contiguous 48 U.S. states since the 1915 eruption…

On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council sent out the Stockholm Appeal, a short text that called for a ban on nuclear weapons and that would eventually be signed by almost 2 million people. The appeal was made up of three elegant sentences: We demand the outlawing of atomic…

Claire Gorman ’20 arrived on campus intent on studying computer science. As her Yale experience unfolded, she developed a love for architecture. Embracing both interests, Gorman majored in computing and the arts. Her senior project merges machine learning and architectural theory to explore how cities and landscapes function and change…