Hiroshima

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…

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…

By Emeka Obasi There is something to cheer about the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world. All attention may be out of our shores where people are giving up in thousands, my eyes are on Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu. I must admit that Sanwo-Olu did not sound wonderful to me prior…

Which is worse, based upon what. All of them were flawed and fighting their inner demons and, one has to presume, doing their best to both survive and do well by their individual nations. Stalin’s inhumanity is not surprising given the nature of the economics and political regimes that preceded…

In a recent essay, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman asked “Can City Life Survive Coronavirus?” It seems an apt question in this extraordinary time of mandated retreat from public life.  City streets and spaces normally teeming with people are nearly deserted now, evoking scenes from a Terry Gilliam film.  In…

To the Soviet military, it is known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. Although it had no official name to the Japanese, it has become known in the West as Operation August Storm. It was the greatest defeat in Japanese military history, yet few outside the circles of Japanese and Soviet…