Hiroshima

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…

Living in Nagasaki, one of two Japanese cities destroyed by atomic bomb during the Second World War, 73-year-old Mitsuo Baba is still grateful to an American who dedicated himself to building homes for survivors. "I met Schmoe-san only a couple of times as a…

If we remember how we could have stopped it, we may yet find a way to do so. If the nuclear arms race has a birthday, it has to be August 29. Seventy years ago, in 1949, the Soviet Union became the second nation to explode an atomic bomb, obliterating…

You can stab him, shoot him, and blow him up with a rocket launchernext to nothing will keep James Howlett, aka Logan as well as the Wolverine, down for long! Wolvie's insane healing factor helps him shrug off wounds that most other mutants simply can't. REL…

A hurricane can release the same amount of energy as the explosion of a 10-megaton nuke every 20 minutes, the NOAA article says. That's more than 666 times bigger than "Little Boy," the bomb that the US dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. In order to mat…

tropical storm barry NOAA "Why don't we nuke them?" President Donald Trump asked during a White House briefing about hurricanes, according to an Axios report. Trump was advocating for a nuclear solution to the tropical storms that hit the southeastern US, a…