Hiroshima

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…

It started on Sky Atlantic earlier this month. And despite only airing for three weeks in the UK so far, with the mini-series having a total of five episodes, Chernobyl has already got a higher rating than both Breaking Bad and Game Of Thrones. The Sky Atla…

Twice in the last month, the President of the United States has claimed that the Pentagon has weapons even more powerful than nuclear weapons, with the ability to easily kill millions. He is either bluffing, confused, or is incapable of understanding the diff…

Key point: The bombings remain greatly disputed and controversial to this day. The most controversial decision of the 20th centuryprobably in all of historywas the one reportedly made by President Harry S. Truman, president of the United States and commander…

Key Point: Heisenberg and his colleagues were very smart, but they made fundamental conceptual errors throughout the war that led them to believe producing an atomic weapon was more difficult and impracticable than was the case. The most nightmarish of World…

Seventy four years ago, on September 15, 1945, the US released a secret document which consisted in waging a coordinated nuclear attack directed against 66 major urban areas of the Soviet Union, which at the time was an ally of the US. The Pentagon estimate…