nuclear bomb
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The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
Washington, D.C., August 4, 2020 – To mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the National Security Archive is updating and reposting one of its most popular e-books of the past 25 years. Continue reading
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60th Anniversary of Castle BRAVO Nuclear Test, the Worst Nuclear Test in U.S. History
Sixty years ago, on 1 March 1954 (28 February on this side of the International Dateline), on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the U.S. government staged the largest nuclear test in American history. The BRAVO shot in the Castle thermonuclear test series had an explosive yield of 15 megatons, 1000 times that of the… Continue reading
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The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Un-Censored Version By Dr. Gary G. Kohls
68 years ago, at 11:02 am on August 9th, 1945, an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan. That bomb was the second and last atomic weapon that had as its target a civilian city. Somewhat ironically, as will be elaborated upon later in this essay, Nagasaki was the most Christian city… Continue reading
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Cancer Pandemic: Reaping the Seeds of Nuke Tests By John LaForge
The warnings about fallout from nuclear tests six decades ago often noted that cancers from the radiation would probably not begin appearing in large numbers for many years. But that time is now – and medical experts are wondering whether the surge in some cancers is a result. Continue reading
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Building a Pretext to Wage War on Iran? Washington Cooks Up a “Nuclear Fairy Tale” BY Dr. Ismail Salami
Co-authored by Mark Dubowitz, who runs Zionist-controlled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and David Albright, a physicist who heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and who is responsible for concocting lies and myths about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and drawing the country into an abysmal vortex of destruction… Continue reading
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Building a Pretext to Wage War on Iran? Washington Cooks Up a “Nuclear Fairy Tale” BY Dr. Ismail Salami
Co-authored by Mark Dubowitz, who runs Zionist-controlled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and David Albright, a physicist who heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and who is responsible for concocting lies and myths about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and drawing the country into an abysmal vortex of destruction… Continue reading
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West Continues Speculation on Iran Nuclear Work By Afsaneh Ahadi
One of the most common political tools, which has been always used by Western politicians is to aggrandize a security crisis anywhere in the world and repeat it in different ways. During recent years, efforts made by Iran to master nuclear technology have been used as an excuse by the Western officials in order to… Continue reading
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Japan urges ban on nukes 65 years after Nagasaki bombing
[“src”:”http://rt.com/s/swf/player.swf?file=http://rt.com/v/2010-08-15/589744_atomic-legacy.flv&image=http://rt.com/s/obj/2010-08-09/peace-memorial-park_afp.jpg&controlbar=over&skin=http://rt.com/s/swf/skin/stylish1.swf&streamer=lighttpd”,”allowfullscreen”:”true”] The Japanese city of Nagasaki has remembered those killed by the second atom bomb dropped by the US in 1945. A minute of silence was observed on Monday to commemorate the moment when the bomb wiped out most of the city. Tens of thousands of people were incinerated instantly as the bomb nicknamed ‘Fat… Continue reading
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Iraq – Another Hiroshima? Investigative report 14 October, 2008
Maurizio Torrealta, of RaiNews24, presents the premiere of an interview with a US war veteran who makes this denouncement: “we used an atomic bomb in Iraq in 1991. “There were very few Italian news reporters, but there were Iranians, Russians, Japanese and Spanish ones. It makes one stop and think.” Maurizio Torrealta of RaiNews24 has Continue reading