On Monday March 1st, 1954, at 6:45 in the morning, the US carried out its largest nuclear detonation ever – CASTLE BRAVO – at the Bikini Atoll in the south Pacific Marshall Islands.
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What Caused Russia’s 1908 Tunguska Blast?
On 30 June 1908, at around 7am in the morning, a massive explosion ripped through the quiet air above a remote Siberian forest at the Tunguska River.
Razor Tojo – Japan’s Adolf Hitler
Contrary to popular myth, Japan’s version of Adolf Hitler was not the Emperor (Showa) Hirohito but rather its infamous War Minister Hideki Tojo.
The 1917 Great Halifax Explosion Eclipsed only by Hiroshima
At 9:05 am on December 6th, 1917, the most devastating man-made explosion, short of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb, occurred in the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada.
Podcast: Razor Tojo – Japan’s Adolf Hitler
Contrary to popular myth, Japan’s version of Adolf Hitler was not the Emperor Hirohito, but rather its infamous Minister of War, Hideki Razor Tojo. But who was this ruthless and powerful man so few outside Japan know of? He rose to power in the 1930’s, began World War II in the Pacific, and wasContinue reading “Podcast: Razor Tojo – Japan’s Adolf Hitler”