Tag Archives : Nuclear weapon

The last survivors of the U.S. atomic attack on Japan 65 years ago, are now elderly people who resist the idea that memories die with them, try to avoid that situation with the help of technology. In Japan there are still 235,000 “hibakusha ‘(atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki), with a mean age of 75 years. Many suffer from [...]

The possible and highly probable Iran nuclear threat has stirred some worry in high places once again. This is due to two major leaks that recently occurred. In the first leak, ‘the New York Times published an article reporting that staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. nuclear oversight group, had produced an unreleased [...]

Intelligence agencies don’t doubt that Iran wants to develop a nuclear bomb. Under ideal conditions, Teheran until it could accomplish the first test of a bomb in 2010. However, Iran still lacks know-how and the necessary resources to build an effective weapon. The agencies are unanimous in one thing: the capacity to accomplish an atomic explosion [...]