Hiroshima

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…

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…

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…

The killer asteroid called as 29075 1950DA can create a crater with a diameter of about 17 miles if it collides with Earth, said the European Space Agency (ESA). The ESA predicted that 29075 1950DA is likely to approach Earth on March 2, 2032, according to th…

Its much more prevalent in the United States, but it is growing and increasing around the world: people have stories to tell and they want to write books. Are you one of these people?  In Japan, a friend comes from Hiroshima, and her mother has a story to te…

Its much more prevalent in the United States, but it is growing and increasing around the world: people have stories to tell and they want to write books. Are you one of these people?  In Japan, a friend comes from Hiroshima, and her mother has a story to te…

In October 1935, roughly six weeks after a devastating hurricane laid waste to the Florida Keys, a group of frustrated chamber of commerce executives from the storm-battered Florida cities of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Hollywood got together to figure out wh…

I, Winston Smith... I mean, Tom Engelhardt... have not just been reading a dystopian novel, but, it seems, living one — and I suspect I’ve been living one all my life. Yes, I recently reread George Orwell’s classic 1949 novel, "1984." In it, Winston Smith, a…