Robert Oppenheimer oversaw the design and construction of the first atomic bombs. The American theoretical physicist wasn’t the only one involved—more than 130,000 people contributed their skills to the World War II Manhattan Project, from construction workers to explosives experts to Soviet spies—but his name survives uniquely in popular memory as the names of the other participants fade. British philosopher Ray [...]
Japan Daily Press reports: Allan Chick is 93 years old, and is said to be the last living Australian POW in World War II who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki. Chick is applying for a special hibakusha (literally “explosion-affected people”) health-care certificate, to be able to receive medical support from the Japanese government. Nobuto Hirano, who leads a support group [...]
Seventy years ago, a small team of Norwegians was sent from Britain to carry out one of the most daring and important undercover operations of World War II – the aim was to prevent Adolf Hitler building an atomic bomb. On Thursday, the leader of that team and its last surviving member returned to London to lay a wreath at [...]
A truck driver and college dropout has built his very own atomic bomb. But John Coster-Mullen from Waukesha, Wisconsin, doesn’t have revenge on his mind, just an insatiable interest in the world’s first nuclear weapons. The 64-year-old, with no background in engineering, spent 15 years recreating a near-perfect replica of the outer casing of the Little Boy bomb dropped on [...]
The Allied forces high command in London determined that the Germans must be stopped from developing an atomic reactor and nuclear bomb at any cost. Water was dripping in a hydrogen plant at Rjukan in Telemark, Southern Norway, as it had done since1934. But this was no ordinary water, and no ordinary plant – it was the only facility in [...]
The fame of Douglas MacArthur saturates American history. As a graduate of the United States Military Academy his exploits have filled numerous books. His rise to power came through his brilliant and sometimes flamboyant victories in the brutal war in the Philippines during WWII. He had retired from active service in December, 1937, but was recalled to active duty as [...]
A long lost image from the Hiroshima atomic bombing has been discovered at a Japanese elementary school. The black-and-white photograph shows the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima split into two distinctly separated parts, one on top of the other. The rare image was found at the Honkawa Elementary School in Hiroshima city, in a collection of about 1,000 articles on [...]
A rare image showing the mushroom cloud from the Hiroshima atomic bombing in two distinct parts, one above the other, has been discovered in the city. The recently found photograph (left) of the mushroom cloud after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima Photo: AFP/Getty Images The black-and-white photograph is believed to have been taken about half-an-hour after the bombing on August 6, [...]
At 11:00am on August 9th, 1945, just a minute before the second atomic bomb in the space of three days was dropped on Japan, a B-29 bomber named The Great Artiste quietly dropped three canisters from the sky. Inside each of the canisters, alongside a shockwave gauge designed by American physicist Luis Alvarez, was an unsigned copy of the following [...]
The biggest single turning point in modern history was the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Japan at the end of the Second World War, according to new research. The use of nuclear weapons to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki was more pivotal than a series of other milestones, including the events that sparked World War One and the fall [...]
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P-38 Lightning Crash Site at Siar IslandMay 21, 2013
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Is it illegal to wear medals you weren’t awarded?May 21, 2013
A selection of impressive black and white photographs of that uneasy year 1943May 21, 2013
Fighter pilot reunited with tough little KittyhawkMay 21, 2013
2011: Intact German WW1 uboat found off IrelandMay 21, 2013
Rhidian Brook: my grandfather inspired my bestselling novelMay 21, 2013
Unthinkable? Putting the second world war to restMay 21, 2013
A wonderful tribute to veterans at the PixMay 21, 2013
Monument to the 1,200 Guardsmen, Kaliningrad, RussiaMay 20, 2013
Russia and Japan seek agreement to end WWIIMay 20, 2013
Top Ten United States Fighter Pilot Aces from WWIIMay 20, 2013
Save The Willow Run Bomber PlantMay 20, 2013
New Dam Busters film on hold!May 20, 2013
