Filmmaker declares existence of UFOs ‘no longer a question’ — as doc probes 80 years of secrets

Farah echoed Stratton’s alarm and asserted that joking about the power and source of UAPs, or Unidentified Anomalous ...

Why Didn’t ‘A House of Dynamite’ Show a Nuclear Explosion?

Against this backdrop, I can’t stop thinking about a scene in the new film “A House of Dynamite.” A clean-cut U.S. Navy ...

The German prisoner of war who gave Japan one of its most beloved cakes

Baumkuchen, a confectionery with German origins, has found an unexpected home in Japan, where it is now a wildly popular ...
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Last Japanese soldier to surrender 29 years after WW2 ended | Hiroo Onoda's 1974 surrender

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the last country of the Axis powers that continued its war, and ...
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I've seen what radiation does to us - it's impossible to see an upside to nuclear

Nuclear weapons are both the ultimate deterrent and the ultimate threat. The same weapons that are capable of preserving peace can also trigger global devastation. There hasn’t been a nuclear attack ...
The Daily Telegraph

Peter Watkins, filmmaker best known for his searing mock-documentary The War Game, banned by the BBC

The BBC eventually caught up with it in 1985, when they transmitted it to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the day before repeating Threads, the 1984 drama depicting ...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Hear from a Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor at A&M-Corpus Christi event

The Corpus Christi community will have the opportunity to hear from survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, during an Oct. 28 event at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Eighty ...
The Conversation

As Gaza starts to rebuild, what lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?

Gwyn McClelland is the former recipient of a National Library of Australia Fellowship and a Japan Foundation Fellowship. He is the president of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia. At first, ...
The American Spectator

Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Man Who Ended the War

Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing nearly 200,000 people. Months before, U.S. bombers obliterated ...
WBUR

80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, disarmament advocates with ties to the bombings speak out

It's been 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The attacks killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ushered in a ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Readers debate the ‘moral necessity’ of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

To the editor: Acknowledging that the war crimes of imperial Japan were informed by a ruthlessness akin to Nazi Germany does not explain (or justify) the choice of densely populated cities as targets ...
National Catholic Reporter

At 80th anniversary Mass in Nagasaki, a plea to bring Christ's love, peace to world

In his homily at a solemn Peace Memorial Mass Aug. 9, Archbishop Peter Michiaki Nakamura of Nagasaki, Japan, issued a passionate plea to the world. "We must abandon the fists, weapons, and tools of ...