Hiroshima

A Japanese mechanic checks the jets between flights at the Tinian airport, on Feb 17, 2023. (Photo: The New York Times) TINIAN, Northern Mariana Islands: The tiny island of Tinian was the launch point for U.S. planes carrying atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now a new runway…

International oilfield services company Schlumberger and energy data provider TGS have proposed conducting seismic blasting with high-powered airguns over a 7.7-million-hectare area in Bass Strait.  Key points:The seismic blasts can record up to 250 decibels, louder than the Hiroshima bombThe blasts can deafen whales and dolphins and kill smaller species such as krillThere are also concerns about…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres raises a copy of the third report of his Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance over the Ukraine war at the organization’s headquarters in New York City on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022 (August 4 in Manila). XINHUA PHOTO HIROSHIMA: "Humanity is playing…

Synopsis On August 6th, the Hiroshima Day Memorial Service is held to commemorate the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The service is celebrated in many countries around the world, and it is an important event in the history of Hiroshima.AgenciesOn August 6th, the Hiroshima Day Memorial Service is…

Today in History Today is Saturday, Aug. 6, the 218th day of 2022. There are 147 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting…

TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima on Saturday remembered the atomic bombing 77 years ago as officials, including the head of the United Nations, warned against nuclear weapons buildup and as fears grow of another such attack amid Russia’s war on Ukraine. “Nuclear weapons are nonsense. They guarantee no safety — only…

(The Conversation) — It has been over seven decades since the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945. The U.S. attack left between 110,000 and 220,000 people dead, and hundreds of thousands more who survived the bomb but suffered its effects –…

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UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Monday he will attend the 77th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing in Hiroshima, “at a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.” The U.N. chief made the announcement in his speech on the opening…

This Week in China’s History: May 30, 1626 A flash of light blinds the residents of Beijing on a spring morning. Thousands of homes are incinerated; many thousands more are shaken by a low rumbling that extends hundreds of miles from the source of the light, south of the Forbidden…