Hiroshima

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…

The United Nations would like you to be aware of asteroids. Id like you to be aware of this: Weus humansdont know even know where all the threatening asteroids are. June 30 is the day for this kind of activity because on this day in 1908, an asteroid explode…

On June 19, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged solidarity and friendship with North Korea no matter how the international situation changes, praising the countrys right direction in seeking a political settlement on the Korean Peninsula, and expressing supp…

HBOs hit mini-series Chernobyl, a story about the infamous 1986 nuclear accident, has rekindled the debate over the perils of nuclear energy. Perhaps a series about the disastrous bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could become a new hit and raise awareness…

Within hours of the attack on the Philippines, an editor at Knopf asked Hersey to write about it. This invitation led to his first book, Men on Bataan, a hasty synthesis of interviews, correspondents cables, and biographical sketches, one part biography of Ge…

A massive asteroid named as ‘2008 KV2’ is all set to streak past Earth on Thursday, reports Interesting Engineering. Well, there is no reason to be worried as there is no chance of a collision. As its name suggests 2008 KV2, the asteroid was first discovered …

On 9 August 1945, a US bomber dropped a 21-kiloton atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing approximately 70,000 people and leaving thousands of others injured. Earlier that month, about 140,000 people died following the US dropping a nuclear bom…