Hiroshima

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…

NAGASAKI - European Council President Donald Tusk visited Nagasaki on Wednesday to pay his respects to the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city, ahead of a Group of 20 summit to be held in Osaka later this week. In a first official visit by an…

The recent release of Godzilla: King of the Monsters and the introduction of a whole new monsterverse has got this medievalist thinking a lot about the creatures that are coming to define our time, and their origins both as kaiju monsters developed in the 195…

Pope Francis will visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Nov 24 during his four-day stay in Japan to offer prayers for victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of the two cities in World War II, sources close to the matter said Tuesday. The pope is scheduled to meet ato…

Before he assumed the pen name George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair had a relatively normal upbringing for an upper-middle-class English boy of his time. Looking back now, his life proved to be anything but ordinary. He's best known for penning the dystopian nove…