Hiroshima

Key Point: The bomb also had a parachute to slow its drop, giving both planes time to fly about 30 miles from ground zero before the nuke detonated.Maj. Andrei Durnovtsev, a Soviet air force pilot and commander of a Tu-95 Bear bomber, holds a dubious honor in the history of the…

Over the weekend, a Guinness World Record for largest aerial firework shell was launched and detonated in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Behold. We don't want to bore you, but the tech specs on this thing are nuts. This thing was about 5'2" tall and weighed in at a record-breaking 2,797 pounds…

Natural? (Image: Shutterstock) Such is the extent of our dominion on Earth, that the answer to questions around whether we are still part of nature – and whether we even need some of it – rely on an understanding of what we want as Homo sapiens. And to know what…

The Facts:Wilfred Burchett, John Pilger and Julian Assange are all Australian journalists who have gone against the grain, and provided information and a perspective to the world that many would not have seen otherwise.Reflect On:Are journalists censored and threatened today because they are actually a threat to 'national security,' or…

At the Academy Awards on Sunday, Hollywood will learn which of 2019’s movies will walk away with Oscars. Among the Best Picture nominees is the World War I epic 1917, which was also a hit with ticket-buyers. That fact is somewhat appropriate, as the word blockbuster has wartime origins —…

Key Point: Under the proposal, 2,000 sailors would have had to sail into hostile waters in an expensive, 900-foot vessel to attack just four targets with nuclear weapons. In the early 1980s, four Iowa-class fast battleships originally built during World War II—Iowa, Missouri, New Jersey and Wisconsin—were taken out of mothballs…

Russia is alarmed by the US Navy’s decision to deploy low-yield nuclear missiles on submarines since they heighten the risk of a limited nuclear war, a Russian official said on Wednesday (5 February). Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the deployment of the W76-2 warhead in the name of strengthening…

MOSCOW - Russia is alarmed by the U.S. Navy's decision to deploy low-yield nuclear missiles on submarines since they heighten the risk of a limited nuclear war, a Russian official said on Wednesday. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the deployment of the W76-2 warhead in the name of strengthening…

Key Point: Someone leaked details to West Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper. According to the leaked info, targets in West Germany had borne the theoretical brunt of the exercise, with 268 of the 335 mock nuclear weapons detonating inside the country. Throughout the Cold War, the prospect of nuclear war hung over…

For most of his life, the boy feared his father. It wasn’t so much the whippings, a frequent sting of leather, bamboo switches against skin; rather, the boy had come to dread a careful stillness in the man, of air closing the gap between what struck and sung. In this…