Hiroshima

A team studying Australia's Wolfe Creek Crater calculated how often meteorites hit Earth with the force of massive nuclear explosions every 180 years to be precise.Professor Tim Barrows from the University of Wollongong led an international team that used two…

Two buildings in Hiroshima that survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing are to be pulled down as they have grown old and are at risk of collapsing in the event of an earthquake, a local committee said recently, despite calls from residents to preserve them. A …

Posted December 15, 2019 07:00:00 Australia's Wolfe Creek Crater is much younger than previously thought, and has allowed scientists to calculate how often meteorites hit Earth with the force of massive nuclear explosions. Key points: New researc…

We received multiple reader inquiries in December 2019 about news reports that claimed a man in Kampala, Uganda, had been hired by mosquito repellent companies because, according to him, they were interested in studying how his flatulence purportedly kills mo…

From planetary change to geopolitical recalibrations, 2019 has been convulsive. The year saw millions worldwide protesting against governmental inaction on the cascading crises in the global environment. Anxiety over nuclear annihilation vied with concerns ov…

A MAN whose farts kill mosquitoes claims to have been signed up by insect repellent companies probing the secret of his killer gas. Joe Rwamirama, 48, from Kampala, Uganda says boffins have launched a study into the chemical properties of his unique trouser …

Key Point: Many of the tests were done on the uninhabited Cental Asian steppes at a place called Semipalatinsk. The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb in 1949, just four years after the United States. Like the United States, the USSR conducted an ag…

Key point: The threat of nuclear annihilation is ever-present. The Heritage Foundations documentary 33 Minutes may not be the most cheerful holiday season film, but its warning to the American public about the risk of nuclear attack could not be more timely.…

Written by Mehr Gill | New Delhi | Updated: December 7, 2019 4:03:00 pm At about 7:55 am on December 7, 1941, about 180 aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the US Naval base at Pearl Harbour on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. (Wikimedia Common…

The level of alarm is already high in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, as the Pacific island nation struggles with rising sea levels and the after-effects of decades of U.S. nuclear testing on its atolls. This week, the picture grew even bleaker, as cli…