‘You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation

Since then, its threat has shaped and justified global conflict. Both Iraq and Iran have been accused of seeking the bomb, ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

The Forgotten Target: Inside the Canceled Third Atomic Bomb Operation in WWII

The conclusion of World War II came with a daunting choice that forever changed history: the use of atomic bombs on Japan.
Dark Footage Official on MSN

Declassified Footage: An Atomic Bomb Too Big to Actually Use

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 ...
The Heritage Foundation

Learning to Love the Bomb? Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons and Limited Nuclear War

Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...
CounterPunch

U.S. Atomic Bombings Didn’t Save Lives or End the War

August 6 and 9 are the 80 th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius ...
New York Post

80 years ago, the A-bomb saved countless lives — but now we must defend against nukes

Japanese men carry a victim of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki in this August 1945 file photo by Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata. via REUTERS Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential ...
UPI

Bombs away? Losers, not winners, will emerge from thermonuclear war

Aug. 6 (UPI) --Eighty years ago today, the first of two atom bombs was used in anger. Hiroshima was vaporized. But one plane, one bomb, destroying a city was inconceivable. The Japanese now could ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...
The Oak Ridger

Nichols: 'The atomic bomb did not win the war; it ended it'

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

WWII roundtable to host broader discussion about use of atomic bomb

In the World War II History Roundtable’s next presentation at Greenville’s Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum, author and U.S. Naval War College professor Jonathan Parshall will be discussing factors ...