Eighty years have passed since the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yet this tragedy remains an open wound on the conscience of humanity and a solemn warning to posterity.
But the bombings were successful in achieving their intended effect. Japan announced its formal surrender to the Allies six days after the second bombing, thus finally bringing the bloodiest conflict in human history to an end.
IN the hours before Israeli forces bombed Iran's Evin prison on June 23, social media posts in Persian foreshadowed the strike and urged Iranians to free the inmates. Read full story ... .
It's once again time to knock on the door of ... hey, what're you playing? That's right -- it's THE BOMB 12! As always, this is our Friday check-in to see what everyone is into in this moment.
A depth chart is about what's on the paper. The NFL is about what's on the turf. A standout example of that was delivered on Saturday in Buffalo, where the New York Giants opened their preseason with the debut of ....
Whether it was justified to use the bomb constitutes one of the most controversial historical questions in American history, but it was clearly the right call ... Then, the atomic bomb demonstrated that, to the contrary, the U.S.
Though the weapons I campaigned against remain terrifying, I doubt we can disarm unilaterally ... He carried a large bottle of suicide pills, enough to kill us all when the bomb fell, to save us from slowly perishing by strontium-90.
During wartime, schools and many houses would have a space in the basement, which Japanese people call bou-ku-go, where people would hide during a bombing. Moore went down to the basement as she had ...
“Don’t you hear the H-bombs’ thunder / Echo like the crack of doom? / While they rend the skies asunder / Fallout makes the Earth a tomb”, with its rousing refrain, “Ban the bomb, forever more!” It ...
Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential understatements of all time, Emperor Hirohito told the people of Japan that “the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.” ....