Hiroshima

In those pre-seat-belt years -- it might have been 1953 -- I can remember being in the back seat of the family car with our dog. My dad was driving, my mom sitting next to him. And I can still practically hear them launching, with remarkable gusto, into the f…

Congress should use the new defense authorization bill to bar the deployment of new, dangerous, and redundant nuclear weapons. The United States has the worlds most powerful military ever. It spends more on defense than the next seven countries combined and…

Skip to comments. North Korea's 2017 nuke test was 16 times bigger than Hiroshima bomb: ReportThe Washington Times ^ | June 3, 2019 | Ben Wolfgang Posted on 06/03/2019 10:11:19 AM PDT by be-baw ... “From 2006 to 2016 North Korea steadily increased th…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin FILE - This July 16, 1945, file photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M. (AP Photo/File) Think of what the world would be like if Russia, …

Godzilla has long reigned as the king of all big-monster movie franchises for more than 60 years. But many people don’t know that Godzilla was inspired by a tragic fishing-boat accident that shook the nation of Japan. To the Japanese people, who were heavil…

WASHINGTON-- North Korea detonated a nuclear device in 2017 equivalent to about 250 kilotons of TNT, a new study estimates, creating an explosion 16 times the size of the bomb the United States detonated over Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. The new assessment of t…

This article contains spoilers of episodes one through four. Retelling the 1986 Chernobyl disaster is an exercise in unburying the truth. In the wake of the world's worst nuclear power plant accident, which forced the city of Pripyat in what was then part…

American composer, arranger and violinist Chad Cannon’s first encounter with Japan came via a Nintendo video game called Ninja Gaiden, which he and his fellow childhood gamers in Salt Lake City, Utah, mispronounced as “Ninja Gayden.” Later, an older sister, a…

Published: 12:45pm, 1 Jun, 2019 Updated: 1:18pm, 1 Jun, 2019

The Last Kingdom (Netflix) Historical setting? Check. Lots of swords and fighty bits? Check. Political intrigue and betrayal? Got it. Mild fantasy elements? Paganism. While Game of Thrones wasn't historical fiction, it was certainly inspired by history, and …