Hiroshima

Russia: Nuclear weapons ‘not a deterrent’ claims Solovyov The US Department of Defence has announced it has plans in place to build a powerful new nuclear bomb. The Pentagon is seeking congressional approval and funding for the development of a new variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb, to be…

By tiffany tobi on September 8, 2023 Cinema, Film 80% Awesome Nolan's grandiose attempt at a biopic is a technical masterpiece in film making but opens up a can of worms on the sate of media literacy. Where Tenet (2020) feels like a condensation of all the faults of Christopher…

Of all the astonishing facts about our blithe remaking of the world’s climate system, the most astonishing might be this: if oceans didn’t cover seventy per cent of our planet, we would have increased the average temperature to about a hundred and twenty-two degrees Fahrenheit. That’s because those oceans have…

A US atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" was dropped by a US Army Air Force B-29 bomber on August 9, 1945, over Hiroshima, Japan. LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY Under the leadership of President Harry S. Truman, the United States detonated the atomic bomb twice over two Japanese cities 78 years…

Around 140,000 people died in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and 74,000 in Nagasaki three days later, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities © JIJI Press/AFP STR Kyoko HASEGAWA Japan’s prime minister hit out at Russian threats to use nuclear weapons as the country…

On August 6, 1945, the U.S. used an atomic bomb for the first time in history, against the city of Hiroshima. The U.S. dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki three days later. Experts estimate that the two bombs instantly killed more than 100,000 people. The movie Oppenheimer has rightly received…

Hiroshima officials criticised growing support for nuclear weapons as a deterrent resulting from uneasiness over Russia’s war in Ukraine and tensions in the Koreas, commenting on Sunday as the city remembered the atomic bombing of 78 years ago. The observance came two months after Hiroshima hosted a summit of the…

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As one Irishman, Cillian Murphy, portrays the physicist and so-called father of the atomic bomb in Oppenheimer, released in cinemas today, recall another Irishman who was the first to film the real-life devastation it caused. Daniel A McGovern, a native of Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, was among the first to enter…