Hiroshima

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…

Earth had yet another close encounter with a giant asteroid on Thursday morning. However, we were fortunate that the 181-feet long asteroid named as 2019 ON did not collide with the Earth and zip past our planet. Yes, you read it right. Asteroid 2019 ON zoom …

Today is the 211th day of 2019. There are 154 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 1945: The USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. On…

In 1609, the English ship Sea Venture, commanded by Admiral Sir George Somers, ran ashore on Bermuda, where the passengers and crew founded a colony. In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine. In …

For a brief fraction of a second on an early March morning in 1954, the United States summoned a second sun into existence above Bikini Atoll. As the four-mile wide fireball bathed the Pacific seascape in its angry, white-red light, onlookers recognized some…