Hiroshima

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…

BANGKOK: Pope Francis will visit Asia in November in a trip that would take him to Thailand and Japan.  It has been nearly four decades since a pontiff visited Thailand and Japan. Advertisement Advertisement The late Pope John Paul II went to Japan - wher…

The next stage for SOV cryptocurrency was revealed yesterday at Invest: Asia. The RMI is moving ahead with a timed-release monetary issuance. The Marshall Islands announced the creation of the first-ever legal tender issued as a cryptocurrency, the Sovereign…

Tom Z. Collina is policy director at Ploughshares Fund. With William J. Perry he is co-writing a book on nuclear policy, The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump, to be released next summer. Next week, Democrats in C…

Sputnik News 12:03 09.09.2019(updated 13:33 09.09.2019) Earlier, an Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation spokesman said Iran would be decreasing its commitments to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, in retaliation to the breach…

There are astronomy experts who are warning that there is a “100% chance” that an asteroid will collide with the Earth and there is a possibility that the impact will cause a mass extinction. Greg Leonard is a professor at the University of Otagos School of…