Fool’s Gold

– The price, per ounce, of modifying and extending the life of the Pentagon’s B61 nuclear bomb. That’s more than Wednesday’s gold price of $1,692 per ounce...

Hiroshima…

Hard to believe the first, and next-to-last, combat use of the atomic bomb happened 67 years ago today. Battleland has always been fascinated and appalled, for...

Japan Eyes Return To Atomic Bomb Base

TOKYO – It’s not clear if anyone appreciates the irony, but Japan wants to help pay for a new U.S. military base on Tinian atoll, a former Imperial Army...

Chavez to Iran: How About Some Uranium?

When Venezuela's Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz walked into a televised Cabinet meeting this week, President Hugo Chavez impishly asked, "So how's the uranium for...

A New Nuke Black Market for Iran?

Although U.S. and allied intelligence services have broken up parts of the nuclear-parts trafficking network run by A.Q. Khan, creator of Pakistan's atomic...

Under the skin

There are plenty of texts dealing with the West's perception of Japan, but the Shomei Tomatsu retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art sfmoma.org,...

Curtain Raiser

There are plenty of texts dealing with the West's perception of Japan, but the Shomei Tomatsu retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...

Slipping Into the Light

Let me tell you about ..." So begin the e-mail missives of Hiroshi Sakamoto, the septuagenarian survivor of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, whose love of haiku...

Web Guide: Hiroshima, 60 Years Later

After the atomic bomb was droppped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, historians and survivors, alike, have collected information on the bomb's destruction and...

DOOMSDAYS

After witnessing the successful test of the first atomic bomb--a primordial burst of energy on the predawn New Mexico desert, a man-made fire bright enough to...