In the 1950s Britain was upset that the USA wouldn’t share its atomic bomb secrets. The Brits decided to build their own bombs and they chose to test them in Australia. Nobody will ever know how much sickness and premature death of Australians in the years that followed can be attributed to exposure to radiation […] The post Radioactive bomber at RAAF Williamtown appeared first on Photo Time Tunnel.| Photo Time Tunnel
December 7, 1941, was, declared President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “a date which will live in infamy,” when Japanese planes attacked and destroyed the U.S. naval fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor,…| Eugene L. Meyer
On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a trove of military and presidential admissions dismantles the myth of necessity. The post 80 Years of Lies: The US Finally Admits It Knew It Didn’t Need to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki appeared first on MintPress News.| MintPress News
This week marks eighty years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima (August 6th, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9th, 1945). We would like to reflect back on previous Unwritten Record posts that highlight records documenting the destruction. In the weeks following the surrender of Nazi Germany, President Harry S. Truman would make the decision on how … Continue reading Link Roundup: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki| The Unwritten Record
We’ve got to have this thing over here, whatever it costs. We’ve got to have the bloody Union Jack on top of it. “This thing” as British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin put it, was the Atomic Bomb. Bevin was quoted …| History of government
The mysterious Ozersk, known as City 40, was not on any maps. Completely walled off, it was home to a covert Soviet nuclear program.| Historic Mysteries
Lord Tenby gives his impression of the 50s as the decade draws to a close| THIS IS MY 1950s from Transdiffusion
On this day in 1945, by the order of President Harry S. Truman, the American bomber Enola Gay drops a five-ton atomic bomb on Hiroshima.| Our Lost Founding