Hiroshima

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…

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid plummeted through Earth's atmosphere and crashed into the sea floor, creating an explosion over 6,500 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima. The impact sent clouds of debris and sulfur…

Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age by Gabrielle Decamous (image courtesy MIT Press) After prolonged dormancy, Cold War-era tropes about the dangers of radioactivity have exploded back into the popular consciousness. This re-emergent fascination is …

President Donald Trump has said several times the US will bring power greater than a nuclear bomb to bear on US enemies. During his 9/11 memorial address outside the Pentagon on Wednesday, Trump threatened the Taliban, with whom he recently canceled peace …

President Donald Trump’s acting national security adviser, former Reagan administration official Charles Kupperman, made an extraordinary and controversial claim in the early 1980s: nuclear conflict with the USSR was winnable and that “nuclear war is a destru…

Our future as a species will be shaped by how we address 5 transformative forces of our own creation: The FIVE FATES.The Five FATES: climate change, NextGen technology, biomedicine, social justice, and the U.S vs. China (democracy vs. authoritarianis…