Hiroshima

Saturdays magnitude 7.1 earthquake near Ridgecrest, California, was nothing to sneeze at. The shake, which triggered gas leaks, power outages, and fires, was felt from San Diego to Sacramento. And it ripped open a new fissure in the Earth that didnt escape th…

After keeping fans waiting for an inordinate amount of time, Sacred Games 2 trailer has finally landed, giving us clues on what to expect from Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer Netflix drama. The show will release on Independence Day, August 15. Th…

History hides the best monsters. Godzilla: King of the Monsters is the latest movie iteration starring the classic kaiju, which also re-introduces multiple enemies from Godzillas past, including Mothra and Ghidorah. It’s common knowledge that Godzilla was c…

It looks like space is furious on us as another deadly asteroid is approaching towards Earth. Don’t believe us? The European Space Agency (ESA) is tracking an asteroid named as ‘2006 QV89’, which measures 40 metres in diameter, is set to fly past the Earth in…

Iran has always insisted it pursued a peaceful nuclear programme, even as the United States and other countries suspected it might be developing nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian programme. Its economy has been languishing under the effects of in…

Charles F. Lanzillo had a front-row seat to the Atomic Age. He was a crew chief on a B-29 bomber on Tinian Island, the launching point for the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That tiny outpost in the Pacific Ocean “looked like the Garden of P…

This work by John Singer Sargent was removed during the war to be protected. © IWM Is it OK to destroy culture to win a war? The answer may seem obvious when confronted with the horrific destruction of the majestic Bamyan Buddhas by the Taliban a sight that …

Jacob Bronowski in a still from The Ascent of Man.Contributor: Everett Collection/Alamy The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science IconTimothy Sandefur Prometheus (2019) For millions of people in the 1970s, the name Jacob Bronows…

Jacob Bronowski in a still from The Ascent of Man.Contributor: Everett Collection/Alamy The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science IconTimothy Sandefur Prometheus (2019) For millions of people in the 1970s, the name Jacob Bronows…

International Asteroid Day: The United Nations General Assembly declared June 30 as International Asteroid Day, in December 2016, in order to "observe each year at the international level the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, Russian Federatio…