Hiroshima

Mazda makes plenty of very mainstream cars; it's a small company by automotive standards, but one that competes hard for volume nevertheless. But Mazda is also a brand that has a well-deserved reputation for going its own way in so many different ways, from…

Trace the epic history of World War II across the globe with more than 100 detailed maps. In this stunning visual history book, custom maps tell the story of the Second World War from the rise of the Axis powers to the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima …

Westerners are aware that the Americans fire-bombed the city of Dresden in Germany at the end of the Second World War, but most of the truth was suppressed as soon as it happened. Dresden was Eastern Germanys cultural centre, a city filled with museums and hi…

You did it! Another week down! We're putting up a post very much like this one every Friday, to celebrate the fact that the week is done. Down with labor-for-money! Up with leisure-for-free! We think of this …

The seven Catholic peace activists who were convicted on October 24 for their symbolic protest against nuclear weapons at the Kings Bay Naval Base are now facing a two-to-three-month wait to hear their prison sentences. They could face more than 20 years in p…

Tokyo, Japan, Oct 30, 2019 / 01:02 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis three-day visit to Japan in November will include a meeting with people affected by the countrys triple disaster, when a major earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011 triggered a meltdown …

Russia has test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile from its newest submarine, part of a fleet that will be the backbone of the country's nuclear deterrent for the next decade. Russia's defense ministry released footage of the Knyaz Vladimir [Prince …

During his campaign for president, Donald Trump said that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody without losing voters. Now, in a case before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (and probably when appealed to the US Supreme Court), t…

Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба; "Tsar Bomb") is the nickname for the AN602 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its October 30, 1961 test remains the most powerful artificial explosion in human history. It was also referred to as K…

Godzilla has been an explicit metaphor for nuclear menace since pre-eminent paleontologist Yamane Kyohei (Shimura Takashi) and his team first discovered the radiation emanating from the monster's giant footprints in 1954's Godzilla, but archival material newl…