Hiroshima

Disheartened by two world wars and the threat of nuclear annihilation, theoretical physicist Paul Driscoll enlists the assistance of his colleague to send him, by time machine, back in time in the hope of altering the course of history. He makes three attempt…

Chernobyl REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/Files It's no coincidence that many details of Chernobyl are still shrouded in mystery. Since the Soviet Union began developing nuclear technology in 1943, Russia's government has tried to keep the details about that meltdow…

Key point: Bunkers would not have saved us. The special terror in nuclear deterrence reveals itself during natural rather than human-made disasters. Despite early warnings, extensive transport networks, government preparations and lots of money, thousands st…

Jacques Chirac, who was awarded the 1996 Ig Nobel Peace Prize, has died. The 1996 Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Jacques Chirac, President of France, for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. Posted …

This list of war memoirs is sponsored by What They Meant for Evil by Rebecca Deng published by FaithWords, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. Many stories have been told about the famous Lost Boys, but now for the first time, a Lost Girl shares her hauntingl…

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: N.J. Schools Pushing Far-Left Indoctrination. What the Hell Is Betsy DeVos Doing? Melissa Barnett, a supervisor of English Language Arts in the Washington Township School District in New Jersey, caused outrage on Twi…

Key Point: Less than a year after the formal end of World War II the United States tested its new superweapons in peacetime. Operation Crossroads in 1946 at Bikini Atoll tested the effects of nuclear weapons on naval fleets and harbors. While burrowing throu…

Rugby World Cup: Wales v Georgia Venue: City of Toyota Stadium, Toyota City Date: Mon, 23 September Kick-off: 11:15 BSTCoverage: Full commentary on every Wales game across BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru, BB…

Of all the known Cold War spies, Klaus Fuchs gave the most material help to the Soviet Union. As the key British theoretical nuclear physicist in the US/UK Manhattan project, and then in the UK’s own independent nuclear weapons programme after 1946, Fuchs had…

Photograph Source: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens – Public Domain The World Order BackdropArguably, even before the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, there was a widespread sense that a state-centric form of world order was morally and fun…