A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part VI - Why the weapons were used... revisionist...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part VI - Why the weapons were used... revisionist...: "Better an end with terror than a terror without end." (German proverb)             In June of 1945, w ith the loss of the Jap...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part V - Burying the dead took too long... Hiroshi...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part V - Burying the dead took too long... Hiroshi...:             The attempt to get a person’s mind around the totality of the destruction wrought by man’s first infantile steps into the Atomi...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part IV - Tibbets and the Enola Gay ride into hist...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part IV - Tibbets and the Enola Gay ride into hist...: "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper." The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot (Above: The race to build an...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part III - A place called Trinity... in the Valley...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part III - A place called Trinity... in the Valley...: “Thunder is good. Thunder is impressive. But it is lightning that does the work.”     Mark Twain (Above: The United States tested on...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part II - Never bring a knife to a gunfight...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part II - Never bring a knife to a gunfight...:             Before we continue to move along with the history of the development and use of these weapons, it is appropriate to understand...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part I - In the beginning... there was always war....

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part I - In the beginning... there was always war....:      “Over the last 5,500 years… about 15,000 wars have taken place on our planet… more than 3.5 billion people have been killed in these ...