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On This Day — US Detonates First Thermonuclear Weapon (November 1, 1952)

“The island of Elugelab is missing.” Gordon Dean Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission summarizing the events to President Eisenhower November 1st 2025 — On November 1st 1952, the United States detonated  the first full-scale thermonuclear device on the island of … Continue reading

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80 Years Ago — From Victory to Atrocity : Remembering the War Crimes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

 “I voiced to him [U.S. Secretary of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country … Continue reading

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The True Story of Dr A. Q. Khan’s Nuclear Black Market [UPDATE — The US Has Bombed Three Nuclear Facilities in Iran: Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan. What Now?]

“There have been only two kinds of CIA secret operations: the ones that are widely known to have failed—usually because of almost unbelievably crude errors—and the ones that are not yet widely known to have failed.” Edward Luttwak May 3 … Continue reading

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On This Day — Can you solve this 1953 Nuclear Mystery? [TOP SECRET H-Bomb Doc Lost]

“We want to know every step he [US physicist John Archibald Wheeler] had taken, persons with whom he had talked, whether he had gone home after receiving the document, how he had gone to the train, whether he had called … Continue reading

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On This Day — US Detonates First Thermonuclear Weapon (November 1, 1952)

“The island of Elugelab is missing.” Gordon Dean Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission summarizing the events to President Eisenhower   November 1st 2023 — On November 1st 1952, the United States detonated  the first full-scale thermonuclear device on the island … Continue reading

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On This Day — Remembering Hiroshima (August 6 1945)

 “I voiced to him [U.S. Secretary of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country … Continue reading

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NUKLUEDO — Can you solve this 1953 Nuclear Mystery? [UPDATE : US Department of Energy vacates AEC 1954 decision In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer]

“We want to know every step he [US physicist John Archibald Wheeler] had taken, persons with whom he had talked, whether he had gone home after receiving the document, how he had gone to the train, whether he had called … Continue reading

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70 Years Ago — Can you solve this 1953 Nuclear Mystery? [TOP SECRET H-Bomb Doc Lost]

“We want to know every step he [US physicist John Archibald Wheeler] had taken, persons with whom he had talked, whether he had gone home after receiving the document, how he had gone to the train, whether he had called … Continue reading

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On This Day — North Korea Tests H Bomb in “Self-Defence Against US” (January 6 2016) [Why I Started Blogging]

“It is just to have H-bomb as self-defence against the US having numerous and humongous nuclear weapons. The DPRK’s fate must not be protected by any forces but DPRK itself.” North Korean State Television Broadcast (January 6 2016) January 6 … Continue reading

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70 Years Ago — US Detonates First Thermonuclear Weapon (November 1, 1952)

“The island of Elugelab is missing.” Gordon Dean — Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission summarizing the events to President Eisenhower   November 1st 2022 — On November 1st 1952, the United States detonated  the first full-scale thermonuclear device on the … Continue reading

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