Hiroshima

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.…

Lieutenant (j.g.) John “Ted” Crosby banked his Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat around, observing the life-and-death drama that was unfolding below him. The Yamato, then the world’s largest battleship and the pride of Japan, was entering its death throes. It was a few minutes after 2 o’clock on the afternoon of April…

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Galina V. Zhuntova,  Tamara V. Azizova,  Evgeniya S. Grigoryeva x Published: April 15, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231531 AbstractStomach cancer is a widespread health condition associated with environmental and genetic factors. Contribution of ionizing radiation to stomach cancer etiology is not sufficiently studied. This study was…

Decades ago, when I began teaching international history, I used to ask students if they thought it was possible for nations to end their fighting of wars against one another. Their responses varied. But the more pessimistic conclusions were sometimes tempered by the contention that, if the world’s nations faced…

Posted by Leslie Eastman    Sunday, April 12, 2020 at 10:00am | 4/12/2020 - 10:00am Coronoavirus pandemic, volcanic eruptions, and massive swarms of locusts. The world is certainly experiencing a challenging set of plagues during Passover Week 2020. Of course, the pandemic continues to be the most significant international concern.…

HIROSHIMA – A record 1.76 million people visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in fiscal 2019 ended March after a renovation put extra photos and more of the A-bomb victims' belongings on display.Foreign visitors hit an all-time high for the seventh year straight, growing by about 88,000 from the previous…