Hiroshima

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…

Language: Tamil Director Athiyan Athirai has made a sensational debut with his Irandam Ulagaporin Kadaisi Gundu, produced by his mentor, noted director Pa Ranjith. Its a meaningful anti-war film made in an entertaining fashion, without becoming too preachy o…

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…

HBOs Watchmen, which comes from the mind of Lost creator Damon Lindelof and is adapted from the late 80s DC Comics Watchmen series authored by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, has, in short, taken pop culture by storm. For longtime fans of the ser…

Advertisement Pope Francis concluded his historic four-day visit to Japan, which saw him preaching anti-nuclear messages to Japans minority Christians. The Pope paid tribute to the victims of Japans Fukushima nuclear disaster while also touring ground zero o…

Pope Francis is planning to change official Catholic Church teaching to declare the use and possession of atomic weapons as immoral, a move that makes clear that his rejection of the Cold War-era doctrine of deterrence is to be official church policy. Franci…