The slow motion train wreck that is the occupation of Iraq grows more nightmarish by the day. In 2006 the American people voted to bring it to an end. But the political process is moving glacially at best. We must force the media and the politicians to recognize just how angry and how massive anti-war sentiment in this country has grown.
Accidents involving nuclear weapons have occurred almost since such weapons were first developed, and these events were a common occurrence during the Cold War. However, the US and other countries possessing nuclear arms developed various safety systems to prevent accidental thermonuclear reactions within these weapons even under the most extreme circumstances in order to avoid potential catastrophes. Even so, non-thermonuclear detonations of the conventional high explosives carried within nuclear weapons still pose a serious threat since they can spread dangerous radioactive contamination much like a so-called "dirty bomb." This scenario has occurred several times during aircraft accidents when high speed impacts or burning fuel caused the high explosive charges on nuclear weapons to ignite. 
At least three dozen serious accidents and incidents involving atomic or nuclear weapons have occurred since 1950. Many of these cases cost the lives of military personnel, led to the release of radioactive material, or resulted in the loss of the weapon itself. Most of these weapons fell into the ocean where the nuclear material could not be recovered given the limits of current technology. It is estimated that over 50 nuclear warheads have been lost in the world's oceans following aircraft or naval accidents. Another 26 nuclear reactors from ships and submarines have also been lost or deliberately dumped at sea. 
A Convair B-36 bomber (Flight 2075) of the US 436 SAC squadron left the airbase at 5:25 PM fort a run to its home base at Carswell Air Force base at Fort Worth, Texas. The flight was to take 16 hours and was to include a "simulated combat profile" mission. The route would take the it non-stop via Washington State and Montana. Here the B-36 would climb to 40,000 feet for a simulated bomb run to southern California and then San Francisco, it would continue its non-stop flight to Fort Worth, Texas. Six hours into the flight, something went wrong. 
was het voor de NAVO van het allergrootste belang uitleg te geven over het belang van de plaatsing van de zogenaamde ‘kruisvluchtwapens’ en en over het systeem van de wederzijdse afschrikking. Vandaar ook dat in betrekkelijk korte tijd de Nederlandse NAVO-baas Joseph Luns zich tot twee keer toe liet verleiden om zich live voor de VPRO-microfoon te laten interviewen. Dat ging niet zo maar, legt eindredacteur Peter Flik uit in het programma Radionieuwsdienst-VPRO van 14 oktober 1983.
On July 16, 1945, at a site called Trinity, a plutonium bomb was assembled and brought to the top of a tower. The bomb was detonated, producing an intense flash and a fireball that expanded to 600 meters in two seconds. The explosive power was equivalent to 18.6 kilotons of TNT. It grew to a height of more than 12 kilometers, boiling up in the shape of a mushroom. Forty seconds later, the blast of air from the bomb reached the observation bunkers, along with a long and deafening roar of sound. 
Jason Taylor was born in 1974 to an English father and Guyanese mother. Educated in South East England, he graduated at Camberwell College of Art, London Institute with a B.A.Honours in Sculpture and Ceramics. 
James Joyce once boasted that, should Dublin ever disappear off the face of the earth, the city could be reconstructed from the references to it in ‘Ulysses’. 
Senegalese workers in the snow just behind the Somme front. Picture made in the Winter of 1916-1917. More than 500,000 men from French colonies came to the aid of France. 
claudia goetzelmann is a native german photographer working in San Francisco who has had the opportunity to live and work in Africa and Asia prior to landing in san francisco four years ago. 
I am a Canadian illustrator who grew up on the Prairies, but currently live in Brooklyn, NY. I do mostly editorial illustration for magazines, newspapers, and websites. 