On a sunny August morning in 1945, Keijiro Matsushima sat in his math class in Hiroshima. He looked out the window, saw two American bombers in the clear blue sky […]
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The detonation of an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 marked the start of a deadly new race for military supremacy. The blast in Hiroshima, Japan was the largest the […]
“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real”: Jules Verne probably never imagined how right he was when he wrote those words. At the start of the last […]
In 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people instantly. Tens of thousands more died in the following years as a result of the effects […]
In 1945, the Second World War continued in the Pacific and Southeast Asia for several more months after the defeat of Germany. The Dutch Royal Navy had been among […]