Hiroshima

NASA Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) tracks all asteroids and comets that threaten to strike Earth. One such asteroid being monitored by the American space agency arm is the 2019 RG2, a speedy asteroid that will shoot past Earth at 50,000 miles p…

Asteroids identified as 2000 QW7 and 2010 CO1 will approach Earth on September 14.Both asteroids are classified as Near-Earth Objects by NASA's CNEOS.Asteroid large enough to threaten the existence of life on Earth arrives once i…

Asteroids can bring tsunamis, shock waves and flattening winds that could be catastrophic.Asteroid God of Chaos has a bigger chance of hitting Earth.Asteroid God of Chaos has 65,000 times the power of the nuclear bomb dropped on …

—A video essay on the environmentalist’s use of nuclear fear to jumpstart a movement. Looking specifically at Nuclear Fallout, Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb, and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. — —Transcript Provided by YouTube: 00:03August six nineteen fo…

Imagine the following scene: alien spaceships in orbit around earth, dropping nuclear bombs into our atmosphere at the rate of 1 bomb per second with the goal of overheating earth and destroying all life on it. It is obvious what we would be doing. We would …

Stalin in the Kremlin after a meeting about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union at the start of Operation Barbarossa. The photographer secretly defied orders to destroy it as it was deemed not to show Stalin in a positive light June 22nd 1941 When the inva…

Two massive update programs for bombs in the US nuclear arsenal will be delivered late. The weapons are just part of a huge arsenal overhaul thats reaching maturity just as the US steps back from key arms limitation treaties and weighs the use of nuclear weap…

Introduction and translation by Steve Rabson. The original Japanese text can be found here. Introduction The March, 1954 Bravo Shot H-bomb test in the Pacific dumped radioactive debris on the Marshall Islands, U.S. servicemen, and the crew of a Japanese fis…

Israel has bombed both Syria and Iraq with impunity. Syria, over the last couple of years, has endured attacks by Israel hundreds of times. In July, the IDF, using US-produced F-35i stealth fighter jets, attacked targets inside Iraq.  From Al-Jazeera: The m…

She was 100 when she died Tuesday in her Northampton home, her family announced. Frances was a strong believer that one sets an example through the way one lives ones life, her family members said in an obituary they placed in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. I…