DROPPING THE BOMB: The Myths and Legacies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This past August marked exactly 70 years since American bombers dropped an uranium gun-type bomb (nicknamed Little Boy) on Hiroshima; this was an event that witnessed the obliteration of a large city in the blink of an eye.[1] Hiroshima did have a military…

World War Two Economics is New Deal Economics

It wasn’t the New Deal it was World War Two that got the economy going. The extreme right agrees with the extreme left and they let it go at that. The statement is designed to end the enquiry. If it was World War two the got the economy going. How…

The Atomic Bomb — A Necessary or Needless Evil?

Did Harry Truman make the right decision by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan?

The Atomic Bomb — A Necessary or Needless Evil?

Weekly Graphic: Australian Military Casualties

This map indicates the number of casualties the Australian military has suffered in various conflicts, mostly outside of the country’s own…