Hiroshima

US President Donald Trumps passive encouragement of violence is insidious and is eating away at the fabric of decency throughout the world, the annual Hiroshima Day commemoration in Dublin was told on Tuesday afternoon. What is the likelihood of Trump initia…

When news of the Japanese surrender reached the world, Americans automatically and naturally assumed it was due to the detonation of the atomic bombs. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen who were making preparations for an invasion…

Universal History Archive/Getty TOKYOWhat if Japan had been the first to use the atomic bomb in World War IIand what if its top-secret research provided the backbone for the nuclear threat the world now faces from North Korea?   These are some of the tough …

In 1890, Cy Young gained the first of his 511 major league victories as he pitched the Cleveland Spiders to a win over the Chicago Colts (however, the score is a matter of dispute, with some sources saying 6-1, and others saying 8-1). In 1911, actress-comedi…

Hiroshima has marked the 74rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city with its mayor renewing calls for eliminating such weapons. Mayor Kazumi Matsui raised concerns in his peace address Tuesday about the rise of self-centered politics in the world and…

The neighbors are the last to know.It’s old news that the US has A-bombs in Europe, but last month when a Canadian Senator accidentally spilled the beans about where they are, the locals got upset. Here is a screen capture from Military Times about the spill:…

On August 6th, 1945 at 8:16 a.m. (Japanese time), an American B-29 bomber the Enola Gay dropped the world’s first war-time atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people were killed as a result of the blast, with another 35,000 injured. At …

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-moral-ambiguity-of-megadeath-and-destruction/It was August 1945, and American Marines were being slaughtered by the thousands as they advanced on the islands surrounding Japan. What the U.S. needed was a secret weapon …

Following months of violation accusations leveled against Russia, the US has pulled out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. With the accord abandoned, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is the only remaining nuclear arms t…

Guam Photographs of Hiroshima taken after the atomic bomb raid reveal a terrible story. The area destroyed in this single volcano lies in ashes and rubble, with here and there a reinforced wall left sadly standing. A communique issued from the headquarters o…