Hiroshima

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) Its fitting that Pope Francis will start his first official visit to Japan in Nagasaki, the city where Christianity first took hold in the country and where nearly 500 years later it remains steeped in blood-soaked symbolism, both religio…

Key point: Both countries have growing, and dangerous, nuclear arsenals. Between February 26 and 27 in 2019, Indian and Pakistani warplanes launched strikes on each others territory and engaged in aerial combat for the first time since 1971. Pakistan ominous…

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has agendas both pastoral and personal for his trip to Asia, where he'll appeal for global nuclear disarmament at the sites of the atomic bomb and minister to two tiny Catholic communities that have suffered gruesome periods of pers…

Digital rendering of the earth observation satellite Sentinel-1. Satellites such as Sentinel-1 and ALOS-2 carry advanced synthetic aperture radars that can provide data to map changing land cover, ground deformation, ice shelves and glaciers. (Photo: ESA / AT…

Pope Francis has agendas both pastoral and personal for his trip to Asia, where hell appeal for global nuclear disarmament at the sites of the atomic bomb and minister to two tiny Catholic communities that have suffered gruesome periods of persecution. Empha…

VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis has agendas both pastoral and personal for his trip to Asia, where hell appeal for global nuclear disarmament at the sites of the atomic bomb and minister to two tiny Catholic communities that have suffered gruesome periods of p…

One local newspaper described the sales listing, with calculated understatement, as a mid-century fixer-upper: an underground bunker built to withstand a nuclear attack, and to house the fire power to retaliate. The decommissioned nuclear silo in southern Ar…

Satellites such as Sentinel-1 and ALOS-2 carry advanced synthetic aperture radars that can provide data to map changing land cover, ground deformation, ice shelves, and glaciers, and can be used to help emergency response when disasters such as floods strike,…

Key Point: Later retold in the movie blockbuster Jaws, the story of the USS Indianopolis is an important capstone to the Second World War.  There was tight security and feverish activity on the dock at the Hunters Point Navy Shipyard in San Francisco Bay aro…

New Delhi: The 2017 nuclear test by North Korea shifted the ground by a few metres, and was 17 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945, according to scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Re…