Hiroshima

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…

Asteroid ‘God of chaos’ will hurtle close to the earth’s surface in 2029 at a surprising distance of 19,000 miles. The 99942 Apophis asteroid will pass under communication and weather satellites in orbit, travelling at almost 25,000 mph when it rockets past t…

While plans called for producing almost 500 Kikkas by the end of 1945, those plans were dashed by Japan's surrender on August 15. Just one aircraft had been completed by war's end. It is a fallacy that Germany was the only nation to develop combat jets in Wo…

Michael Peck History, Asia Or just another failed terror weapon? Japan Built a Killer Kamikaze Jet Weapon: A World War II Winner? While plans called for producing almost 500 Kikkas by the end of 1945, those plans were dashed by Japan's surrender on August…

A visitor passes by a wall displaying a picture of the mushroom cloud when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima in 1945, at the Peace Memorial Museum on August 6, 2009 in Hiroshima, Japan. | Junko Kimura/Getty Images National governments aren’t prepared…

Dr Liane Russell, a pioneer in the study of the dangers of radiation on developing embryos, whose findings are the reason doctors today ask women if they are pregnant before giving them X-rays, died on July 20 in a hospital in Oak Ridge, Tenn. She was 95. Rus…