Hiroshima

Key point: These bombers were able to drop a lot of weapons on Japanese cities. They were devastating and changed the course of the war. As the Japanese delegation stood on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri on September 2, 1945, preparing to sign the documents that ended World War…

This week I saw yet another headline ‘Skynet is near – Google scientists create Artificial Intelligence that evolves on its own” intimating that some sort of humanity destroying AI system is not only an inevitability but on the cusp of reality.  Icons such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have…

A secret group of the nation's top scientists funded by a group of billionaires say they believe they have the answer to combatting the coronavirus pandemic and intend to make their proposals known to the White House. The group consisting of a dozen doctors is led by 33-year-old Dr. Thomas Cahill…

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Fracture by Andrés Neuman. Macmillan Andrés Neuman’s new novel, Fracture, spans more than six decades, five time zones, and four love affairs. It’s one of the most ambitious books I’ve read recently; the writer tackles issues of gender, love, environmentalism, translation, and international relations in just under 350 pages. The…

For most residents of Pripyat, Saturday 26 April 1986 seemed a relatively unremarkable day. Some would have been aware of an incident at the nearby Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant, around which the town had sprouted up in the decade prior, but, in the words of one off-duty engineer: “There…

Japan wasn’t the place for me — or so I thought. I’m the flour guy, and didn’t expect the Japanese to be into baking because of their rice culture. I couldn’t have been more wrong.It turns out their bakeries are incredible. I was scratching my head, thinking: ‘We’ve been making…

I agree, Mr. President. The WHO is ill-prepared to handle the COVID-19 pandemic but not for the reasons you claim. You suggest they are China-centric, misled and lied to the U.S., and got “every aspect” of the response wrong. These falsities led you to the dangerous decision to halt funding for a…

By Eric Teniola IT is now clear that all our achievements and successes are nothing but vanity. A few hours before he was assassinated on April 3, 1968 in Melphis, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jnr. declared: “We have got some difficult days ahead, something is happening in our world. Trouble…

At exactly three o’clock in the afternoon on February 25, 1944, a crowd gathered at the Boston Navy Yard for the commissioning ceremony of the USS O’Brien (DD725), a destroyer of the Sumner class. Built by Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine, and named after Captain Jeremiah O’Brien, a U.S.…