The attempt to destroy the Iran nuclear program by bombing their deep underground facilities reminded me of Aspen’s connection to the fear of a Soviet nuclear attack back in the 1950s. The anecdotes ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors, known as the “hibakusha,” will host events to share personal stories of the 1945 World War II atomic bombing and engage in discussions of ...
On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt and grandfather were weeding the rice fields while her grandmother was ...
IOWA (KTIV) - He was a poor farm boy from Iowa who went on to change the world by refining the elusive ingredient needed to make the atomic bomb. This edition of “We The People” focuses on Iowan ...
The Nagasaki Peace Bell in Honolulu sits near the intersection of South Beretani and Lauhala streets, at the Frank F. Fasi Civic Center grounds. In addition to Honolulu, other replicas of the Nagasaki ...
The way a war was fought changed forever in August of 1945 when the United States detonated the world's first atomic bombs on top of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But despite the massive damage, the ...
HIROSHIMA, Japan (HawaiiNewsNow) - Koko Kondo was just 8 months old when an American B-29 aircraft named the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on her hometown of Hiroshima. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945 ...
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 ...
In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site is ...
Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote for ...
Nuclear testing wasn’t all that went underground in the 1950s in Las Vegas. The identity of the woman in the Atomic Age’s most iconic photograph was also buried. On May 24, 1957, a Sands Copa Room ...