Atomic Bomb

Divers Embrace The Nuclear History Of Bikini Atoll

James M. Clash | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: James Jim Clash, Adventure, Scuba Diving, Able Test, Marshall Islands, Wwii, Pacific Ocean, Atomic Bomb, Baker Test, Radiation, U.S.S. Saratoga, Bikini Atoll, Nagato, Nitrox, Hiroshima, Slidewide, Travel News

Far off in the Pacific Ocean, 200 feet below the surface, sit a dozen radioactive warships.

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WATCH: 'Armageddon' Nuke Plan Eyed For Saving Earth From Asteroid

Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Los Alamos, Planetary Science, Nuke, Blow Up an Asteroid, Astrophysics, Armageddon, Atom Bomb, Destroy Asteroid, Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Bomb, Asteroid, Video, Science News

By: Mike Wall Published: 03/12/2012 11:33 AM EDT on SPACE.com A well-placed nuclear explosion could actually save humanity from a big asteroid h...

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Harry Truman's Lies and Fukushima

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Fukushima, Atomic Energy, Atomic Bomb, Radiation, Hiroshima, Fukushima Nuclear Crisis, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, World News

No matter how many new reports there will be on this anniversary, the facts remain the same. Nuclear power is far dirtier and far deadlier than anything man has ever created.

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Let's Drop the Big One

Bob Burnett | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Republican Presidential Candidates, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Atomic Bomb, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Iran War, Iran, War Hawks, Politics News

Republican presidential candidates' extreme comments about economics and culture have dominated headlines, but lurking in the shadows is a hawkish Cold War mentality. Gingrich, Romney and Santorum want to beef up the military and put nuclear weapons back on the table.

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Wal-Mart's Manhattan Project

Al Norman | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Walmartization of New York, Trojan Horse, Major Michael Bloomberg, Atomic Bomb, 000 Lost Jobs, 14, Business News

For Wal-Mart to match the market share it has across America, it would have to open 159 stores in NYC -- and nearly 14,000 jobs would be lost at other merchants. This would be the retail equivalent of an atomic bomb dropped on the retail economy in Gotham.

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Revealed: Ayn Rand's Script for Hollywood Movie Glorifying the Atomic Bomb

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Atomic Bomb, Hollywood, Ayn Rand, Hiroshima, Culture News

Did Ayn Rand hate the Bomb? Hardly. In fact, she extolled its creation as "an eloquent example of, argument for and tribute to free enterprise."

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Press Censorship: Famous War Reporter's Historic Scoop Spiked -- for 60 Years

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Truman, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Censorship, War Reporter, Media News

One of the great mysteries of the nuclear age was solved just six years ago: What was in the censored, and then lost to the ages, newspaper articles filed by the first reporter to reach Nagasaki following the atomic attack on that city on August 9, 1945.

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Baseball at Ground Zero: Ghosts in the Outfield at Killing Field

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Hiroshima, Baseball, Atomic Bomb, Sports News

To welcome its first pro team, Hiroshima erected the stadium in the early 1950s. The mayor hoped baseball would "revitalize the spirit of Hiroshima," and make citizens forget what had happened. Yet he built the stadium 300 yards from the epicenter of the atomic explosion.

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Twice Cursed: The Man who Survived the A-Bomb in Hiroshima -- and in Nagasaki

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Obama, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Nuclear Weapons, Atomic Bomb, Japan, World News

"I felt so dishonored that I had to experience the atomic bomb twice. It's nothing to be boastful about. I could not talk to anyone about it because almost no one else met the bomb twice. So there was no one who could sympathize with me."

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U.S. Presidents and Hiroshima: Obama's Surprising Move

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Obama, Hiroshima, Nuclear, Antinuclear, Atomic Bomb, Nuclearweapons, Japan, Politics News

Two cheers for Obama for at least marking what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Next step: an honest American reappraisal and real progress on nuclear abolition.

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66 Years Ago: The Crime of Nagasaki -- The 'Forgotten' A-Bomb City

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Truman, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Nagasaki, World War II, Antinuclear, Nuclear Power, Nagasaki Bombing, World News

No one in America ever wrote a bestselling book called Nagasaki, or made a film titled Nagasaki, Mon Amour. "We are an asterisk," Shinji Takahashi, a sociologist in Nagasaki, once told me, with a bitter smile.

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Associated Press: America Is Dead -- Funeral Plans Under Debate

Mark Steinberg | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Italy, Bank of China, Debt, Humor, World Bank, Obama, Soviet Union, China, Sarajevo, Potato Chips, Funeral, Swim Fins, Unemployment, Venezuela, Satire, Vietnam War, Cantor, Atomic Bomb, Boehner, Archduke Ferdinand, Bachmann, Amtrai, Gwynedd, Deheubarth, Powys, Comedy News

It was announced today that the United States of America, also known as the U.S., U.S.A. and the U.S. of A., died during the last week of August 2011 ...

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The Day After: America's 'First-Strike' Policy and Why Hiroshima Matters Today

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Iran, Nuclear War, Truman, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, First-Strike, Obama, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Israel, Nuclear Policy, Politics News

Over and over, top policymakers and commentators say, "We must never use nuclear weapons," yet they endorse the two times the weapons have been used against cities in a first strike. To make any exceptions means exceptions can be made in the future.

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66 Years Ago: When Truman Opened the Nuclear Era With a Hiroshima Lie

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.06.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Truman, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Nuclear, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Politics News

On Aug. 6, 1945, President Truman faced the task of telling the world that America's crusade against fascism had culminated in exploding a revolutionary new weapon of extraordinary destructive power. From its very first words, the official narrative was built on a lie.

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PHOTOS: Hiroshima: The Original Ground Zero

Adam Harrison Levy | Posted 10.05.2011

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What can a suitcase, found in a pile of garbage, tell us about Hiroshima and its legacy? The suitcase was found eleven years ago by a man who was out...

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66 Years Ago: The Day the Nuclear Age Began With a Bomb and Prayer

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Truman, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Nuclear, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Politics News

Sixty-six years ago today, the Nuclear Age began with a tragic bang, with the killing of over 100,000 people in Hiroshima, the vast majority women and children. Decades of a costly nuclear arms race followed.

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Countdown to Hiroshima 66 Years Ago: Was the Bomb Necessary?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Truman, Nuclear, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Antinculear, Politics News

Sixty-six years ago, U..S policymakers and President Truman made decisions that meant the use of two atomic bombs against Japanese cities was almost inevitable. Then film footage and other evidence of the true effects of the bomb were suppressed for decades.

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The Great Hiroshima Cover-up: How the U.S. Hid Shocking Historic Footage for Decades

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Truman, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear, Hiroshima, World War II, Atomic Bomb, Politics News

The color U.S. military footage would remain hidden until the early 1980s, and has never been fully aired. It rests today at the National Archives in College Park, Md., in the form of 90,000 feet of raw footage labeled #342 USAF.

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Breaking Bad: Better Television Through Chemistry

Richard B. Woodward | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Chemistry, Drugs, New Mexico, Atomic Bomb, Aaron Paul, Methamphetamine, Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad, Entertainment News

By now it's clear that Breaking Bad is mixing together a couple of familiar genres -- the horror novel and gangster movie -- and that the catalyst for this unique experiment in American television will be the metaphor of chemistry.

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Day 3: Google Still Suppressing Ads for My Book About...Suppression

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Truman, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weaponws, Coverup, Nuclear, Hiroshima, Media, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Media News

Google is suppressing ads for a book about... suppression. Three days later, they have not responded to my queries, or the protests of many others.

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Google Suspends Ad for My Book Questioning Atomic Bombings--Claiming It 'Promotes Violence"

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Coverup, Nagasaki, Nuclear, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Atomic Bombings, Books News

Perhaps Joseph Heller or some other master of dark comedy would have enjoyed this. I just received email notice from Google that it has suspended an ...

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Wildfire Advances On Famed Nuclear Lab

AP | By P. SOLOMON BANDA and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 08.28.2011

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- A wildfire burning near the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor dr...

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Political Fallout: Will Germany Go Nuclear-Free?

Katie Engelhart | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Europe, Nazi Germany, Germany, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi, Nuclear Renaissance, Manhattan Project, Angela Merkel, Die Grunin, Natural Gas, Atomic Bomb, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Three Mile Island, World News

Germany could well become the first major industrial power to abandon nuclear energy entirely.

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The Radioactive Racism Behind Nuclear Energy

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fukushima, Australia, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency, Australia Aboriginals, Japan Earthquake, Nuclear Weapons, Japan Tsunami, Indian Point, Japan, Atomic Bomb, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, South Africa Nuclear, World News

If we survey the landscape of nuclear development across the planet, we see that the destructive impacts of the technology are often paired with the dehumanizing impacts of environmental racism.

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Did The Atom Bomb Test Fallout Cause Cancer?

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cancer, Atomic Bomb, Atomic Bomb Ww2, Atomic Bomb Effects, Atom Bomb Facts, Atomic Bomb Facts, Home News

Studying health risks of radioactive emissions from both weapons and reactors has been a highly politicized issue, as the military and industries producing these chemicals are not eager to present findings of harm.

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