Hiroshima

Last week, an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building passed 4.6 million miles from Earth but could’ve been 500 times more destruction than the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima had it actually hit. Today, another asteroid the size of the Great Py…

Photograph Source: Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project director, with a map of Japan – Public Domain We like our anniversaries in blocks of 50 or 100  at a push well tolerate a 25. The 100th anniversary of the Somme (2016), the 75th anniversary of the Battle of…

The efficient engine of this destruction was the Gato-class sub, the backbone of the U.S. underwater fleet. There is much discussion about how it stacked against World War II's other underwater killer, the German U-boat. The comparison is somewhat academic; J…

Randrew asks: Why do people say the human soul weighs 21 grams? Its often said that its impossible to put a price on a human life, but that doesnt necessarily mean you cant define it by other metrics, something physician Duncan MacDougall tried to do in the …

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) The second season of an AMC-TV drama series follows the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and a number of bizarre deaths haunting a community. “The Terror: Infamy” is set to premiere Monday and stars Derek Mio and or…

Mayor Tomihisa Taue told mourners at Nagasaki's 74th anniversary of its devastation by a US World War II bomb that nuclear weapons must be eliminated. The August 9, 1945 bombing three days after a similar device devastated Hiroshima killed some 70,000 Nagasa…

Seventy-four years ago on August 6, the US dropped the first ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred thousand, instantly vaporizing some 70,000 people, mostly civilians, and causing the painful, slower death of anot…

"Fat Man" was the codename for the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on August 9, 1945. It was the second of two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare to date (the other being "Little Boy"), and its detonation caused th…

The atomic cloud rises over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Wikimedia, CC BY As Boris Johnson entered 10 Downing Street, he was required to write the so-called “letters of last resort” – his instructions should the United Kingdom be hit by a nuclear strike. At th…

We like our anniversaries in blocks of fifty or one hundred at a push well tolerate a twenty five. The 100th anniversary of the Somme (2016), the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain (2015). Next year, well remember the end of the Second World War, the f…