Ghosts of Hiroshima Thank you to libro.fm and Blackstone Audio for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook. I am freely offering my honest review. From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Her Name, Titanic SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ACADEMY AWARD–WINNING FILMMAKER JAMES CAMERON […]| Leah's Books
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
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