Author: Simanonok

It thrust the world into the atomic age, changing warfare and geopolitical relations forever. Less than a month later, the U.S. dropped two nuclear …

Literally and figuratively, splitting the atom was the earth-shaking event that ended World War II, launched the Cold War, provoked an international …

… to say that the whole world—which had been on the brink of nuclear war during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis—looked forward to such a signal.

Nuclear authority was vested in the president alone on the rationale that seconds would count during a nuclear attack and there wouldn’t be time to …

Following the Pearl Harbor attack two days later, the U.S. was at war with the Axis powers; for the remainder of the ten-day sea voyage, the ship was …

… Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by atomic bomb explosions 75 years ago this August, hastening the end of World War II.

Jobs, racial equality, climate change, war, class, gender, and nuclear weapons were all connected and part of the same fight: universal human rights, …

… when fears of a nuclear war and the woes of Jimmy Carter’s presidency amid the Iranian hostage crisis saw paper currencies exchanged for gold on …

A found-footage film about the threat of nuclear war that was simultaneously hilarious and chilling, it was a big deal. Everyone was talking about it.

(Inside Science) — On July 16 this year, on what marks the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear bomb test, a patient may go to the doctor for a heart …