Hiroshima

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 …

In the wake of the mushroom clouds that blossomed over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it swiftly dawned on political and military leaders across the globe that warfare between superpowers would never again be the same. But what exactly were th…

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February, 2015, pp. 28-29 Special Report By Grant F. Smith In 1958 Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion designated super-lobbyist Abraham Feinberg as the North American coordinator to raise funds for Isr…

Minuscule glassy beads formed from debris of the atomic bomb blast that devastated Hiroshima nearly 75 years ago litter nearby beaches, according to a new study. The beads, which no one seems to have noticed until now, apparently formed in the atomic cloud f…

Its old, its obvious and it has mechanical problems facts hard to ignore while the Tu-95 plays a key role in a highly orchestrated and much exaggerated effort by the Kremlin to impress its foreign rivals. (This first appeared several years ago and is being r…

Turkey is preparing for US sanctions after going ahead with the purchase of Russian military hardware, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said in a statement circulated Wednesday. The White House has threatened sanctions under the Countering America's Adve…

Donald Trump is taking the United States back to an earlier time one most people thought had been left behind. His aggressive boorishness, entitlement, and belief that he can do whatever he wants are qualities from an age when men’s control was assumed, and o…