Hiroshima

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…

Jeffrey Mankoff Security, Maybe more than you think... That History Book You Are Reading Is Wrong: Russia's Attack on Japan in World War II Matters With both Russia and Japan increasingly wary of Chinese power in the Asia-Pacific, four sparsely populated…

Earth has recently escaped a cataclysmic “tragedy” in July this year when asteroid 2019 OK zip past the planet. Every time Earth cannot be so lucky. A huge asteroid named as 467317 (2000 QW7) will approach dangerously towards Earth on September 14. Yes, you r…

In the book 15 Minutes: General Curtis LeMay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation, several residents of the Marshall Islands told author L. Douglas Keeney of the great terror they felt on the morning when Castle Bravo, a gigantic thermonuclear bomb, lit …

A popular Reddit thread suggests a US scientist once lit his cigarette with a nuclear explosion. The story appears to be true: Theoretical physicist Ted Taylor ignited his smoke with thermal energy released by a test blast on June 1, …

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 secret…