Japan marks 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb

Amidst the race to acquire Nuclear weapon today Japan is paying homage to residents of Hiroshima who died in the first atom bomb attack in the world war  Two. US Army pounded atom bomb on Hiroshima and also...

Who Will Light the Olympic Flame?

"As the most controversial torch relay in Olympic history comes to an end, folks here wonder: Who will light China's fire? Guessing the person who will light the huge flame inside the National Stadium has become the...

Give Peace A Chance

Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, CanadaGive peace a chance was the theme of the lantern ceremony held Wednesday August 6 at the harbour.  This was the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic...

I Am Become Death: Atomic Bomb Dropped 8/6/1945

"Am Become Death: Atomic Bomb Dropped 8/6/1945 Posted on 06 August 2008 by Kevin Today in history, on this day August 6, 1945, U.S. bomber, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima Japan...

Tunguska Blast Bigger than Hiroshima Still a Mystery 100 years Later

Sometime in the early morning of June 30, 1908, some sort of massive explosion shook central Siberia. Witnesses at the time said they saw a fireball detonate in the sky above a desolate, forested region. What occurred during this time isn't exactly known, but the...

AUSTRALIA: Rudd urges abolition of nuclear arms

Good to hear Australian PM Kevin Rudd speaking out against nuclear weapons during his recent visit to Hiroshima. According to a report on int'l military spending from the Stockholm International Peace Research...

Japan concerned at geographical names becoming Chinese trademarks

" TOKYO — Japan has decided to step up its efforts to protect Japanese place names, such as Kyoto and Hiroshima, from being registered as trademarks in China, government officials said Wednesday. As the Chinese and Japanese languages share many kanji characters, an...

New Photos From Hiroshima: An Unfriendly Reminder

"Hillary Clinton recently revealed what a Clinton Presidency would consider in response to a scenario in which Iran attacks Israel: "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran...In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider...

Bombs Away! Nukes Will Certainly Kill Our Planet

So listen up India, Pakistan, Korea, Iran and any other country who is seriously thinking about exerting their nuclear muscles on another country.According to a study in the April 7th issue of the journal,...

Empire or Humanity?

"Opinion: With an occupying army waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with military bases and corporate bullying in every part of the world, there is hardly a question any more of the existence of an American Empire. Indeed, the once fervent denials have turned into a...

Remembrance of Things Pastor

"I think that Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been fatally damaged by the revelations of the extreme statements of his pastor, Jeremiah Wright. A couple of examples:"The government gives them [African Americans] the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike...

A Pakistani view of U.S. nuclear weapons

"COLUMNS Columns > A Pakistani view of U.S. nuclear weapons A Pakistani view of U.S. nuclear weapons By Hugh Gusterson | 5 February 2008 "The [U.S.] Air Force has...

PAUL AND HIROSHIMA "IT'S 8:15"

Yesterday November 1, 2007 I visited the grave of Robert Capa in Amawalk New York. Capa had covered the Second World War and received the Medal Of Freedom Citation from General Eisenhower. His photos of the D-Day...

Dead Man Sends Christmas Cards From ‘Heaven’

Chet Finch had been working on this joke for 2 decades." ASHLAND, Ore. - Even in death, Chet Fitch is a card. Fitch, known for his sense of humor, died in October at age 88 but gave his friends and family a start recently: Christmas cards, 34 of them, began...

Pilot who dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima dies

"Paul Tibbetts, 92, died in Columbus, Ohio after suffering small strokes and heart failure. At the age of 30, he flew the B-29 Enola Gay on August 6, 1945 from the Pacific island of Tinian to Japan, dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The explosion of the bomb,...

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