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...
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"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...
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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...
"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...
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...
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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...
" 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...
"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...
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,...
"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...
"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...
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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...
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...
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...
"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,...