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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…

A steel-cutting ceremony marked the start of construction for France's new frigate at Naval Group's Lorient, France, shipyard. The shipyard ceremony Thursday was led by French Defense Minister Florence Parly, and guests included Adm. Nicolaos Tsunis of the G…

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…

Photograph Source: A Trident II missile fires its first stage after an underwater launch – Public Domain On October 24, following a three-day trial in Brunswick, GA, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine base were convicted on three …

At 81, Nobuhiko Obayashi has terminal lung cancer, but his confrontation with death began so long ago it has characterized his decades of filmmaking. Obayashi has stayed true to himself through more than 40 movies and thousands of TV shows, commercials and o…

by Kevin M. Shanley Mao beside Joseph Stalin at a ceremony celebrating Stalin's 71th birthday in Moscow in December 1949 Recently, I attended a birthday party for my nephew who was born in the year 1949. Reflecting on the year of his birth, I was struck by…