Hiroshima

“Hummingbird eggs, right outside of my door, are the size of a small jellybean.”“My dad owns original animation cells from “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, and “The Little Mermaid””“This cupcake looks like a manatee.”“A glass that broke vertically.”“Uncomfortably large meat tube.”“The way this tree root is…

Marine life ravaged by years of fishing activity, nuclear tests and chemical pollution could see a "substantial recovery" by 2050 if world governments invest billions a year in restoration, according to a study released Wednesday.Researchers say governments would have to invest up to $20 billion US a year to continue…

Spring 2018–Winter 2019 On style and violence Mark Dorrian Blended anatomies. Richard Hamilton, Hers Is a Lush Situation, 1958. In January 1961, the eminent architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner gave an address at the London headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects during which he reflected upon troubling developments that…

The rescheduled Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics should bring the world back together in a reinvigorated spirit of Olympism — the ideal that sport should be conducted at the service of humane social development, international understanding and peace. While it’s often forgotten today in the preoccupation with medals and marketing, Olympism…

The story is told from the viewpoint of some vaguely unknown intelligent life-forms that live a few hundred light-years from where we do now. And there’s a scientist in it – an observer. They’re reporting on the observations of radio transmissions from several planets in the nearish neighborhood. It has…

“Fear is the oldest weapon in history. Throughout the life of mankind, it has been the resort of those who could not hope to prevail by reason and persuasion. It will be repelled today, as it has been repelled in the past — not only the steadfastness of free men…

Key point: The Soviets’ Manchurian Campaign, August Storm, destroyed the last vestige of Japanese military power outside Japan, and put the final nail in the coffin of those Japanese militarists who, even after suffering two atomic attacks, intended to continue the war to the death.  To the Soviet military, it is…

Key point: While the B-29 was responsible for the three deadliest bombing raids in history—the firebombing of Tokyo and the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—its successor the B-50 never dropped a bomb in anger. Quiz time! Which secret American military project during World War II proved even more expensive than…

As the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombing approaches, Robert Lepage’s extraordinary play returns to the stageBooks, arts and cultureProsperoWHEN “THE SEVEN STREAMS OF THE RIVER OTA” had its premiere at the Edinburgh Festival in 1994, critics were unsure what to make of it. One writer noted caustically that the…

In front of Tokyo’s Ōimachi Station stands a bronze statue of a woman, with one arm holding a little boy’s hand and the other raising toward the sky. On her raised hand, a bird perches with what seems to be a sprouting plant between its beak. Most passersby are likely to…