Hiroshima and Nagasaki: five reasons why President Truman made the right decision
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was apocalyptically awful. 70 years ago today, an estimated 90,000 people were immediately killed when Little Boy detonated 1,950ft…
Real Life ‘Jaws’ For Survivors of USS Indianapolis Which Sank Just Before the End of WWII
The year was 2000, the whole world was celebrating the dawn of the new millennium, however in the U.S congress a debate was taking place…
Thousands of Japanese war dead remain unclaimed
As VJ Day has been commemorated around the world, the cremated remains of over 7000 Japanese war dead killed during World War Two remain unclaimed…
70 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
[Via] As Japan commemorates 70 years since the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the world is remembering the aftermath of those bombs.…
Tsutomu Yamaguchi – the world’s only survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs
[Via] Japan’s Tsutomu Yamaguchi lived a long, healthy life until he died in 2010 at the ripe old age of 93. What could have killed…
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: five reasons why President Truman made the right decision
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was apocalyptically awful. 70 years ago today, an estimated 90,000 people were immediately killed when Little Boy detonated 1,950ft…
HG Wells Foresaw A Future With Nuclear Bombs
[Via] HG Wells the famous fiction writer was one of the first to write about an atomic bomb more than thirty years before the atomic…
Top 10 Weapons that Changed the History and the World
The journey of man through the history has been, to put it mildly, kind of bumpy. On one side we can pride ourselves for the…
Hiroshima mission flight logs up for sale
The flight logs from the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and ended World War Two are to go on sale. [Via] The Enola…
The mystery of the missing wheel cap of ‘Enola Gay’ – B-29 that dropped Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
[Via] The iconic B-29 bomber that was used to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was named the ‘Enola Gay’. This plane was not preserved…
70 years since deadly bombing raid on Tokyo
Seventy years ago in early March 1945, US B-29 bombers undertook their deadliest bombing raid on Japan’s capital city, Tokyo. The bombing raid dumped huge…
London’s Science Museum is hosting the exhibition of Churchill’s Scientists
In Britain, scientific evolution blossomed during the Second World War. The war brought a revolutionary change in British history. At the time, the versatile Sir…