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Right from the start, the nuclear age was wrapped in a paradox. An awful weapon had saved lives; a terrible instrument of war had brought peace. The images from Hiroshima seared the consciousness of a generation, forever serving as an admonishing reminder of mankind's destructive capacities. "In an instant, without warning, the present had become the unthinkable future," TIME wrote one week after the dropping of the bomb. And yet the very memory of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of cities being reduced to rubble in an instant, provided an odd hope that such terror would never...
...Morris R. Jeppson, 83 Weapon Test Officer...
...Morris R. Jeppson, 83 Weapon Test Officer...
DISCOVERED. An ICE AX believed to be the weapon used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky; by the daughter of a former Mexican secret service agent; in Mexico City. DNA tests of bloodstains on the ax have been delayed by a dispute between Ana Alicia Salas, who says her late father removed the ax from an evidence room for safekeeping, and Esteban Volkov, Trotsky's grandson, who wants it donated to his museum at Trotsky's former home. Trotsky, a leader of the 1917 Russian revolution, had fled the Soviet Union in 1937 after differences with Josef Stalin...
...Taliban," says the shepherd, Gulab. "I remembered hearing that if an American sticks up his thumb, it is a friendly gesture. So that's what I did." To make sure the message was clear, Gulab lifted his tunic to show the American he wasn't hiding a weapon. He then propped up the wounded commando, and together the pair hobbled down the steep mountain trail to Sabari-Minah, a cluster of adobe-and-wood homes--crossing, for the time being, to safety...