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Finding of Long Lost WW2 Wreck is 'Rewriting History'
CNET· 2025-09-14 12:00
Meet the Terzuki, a World War II era Japanese destroyer that hasn't been seen in 83 years. Using advanced remote operated vehicles and uncrrewed ocean mapping drones, Ocean Exploration Trust's exploration vehicle Nautilus captured these haunting images of a wreck that's helping rewrite history. The discovery was made in what's called the Iron Bottom Sound, which earned its name as a result of several World War II battles that took place there, as well as the resulting shipwrecks and downed aircraft scattere ...
Putin, Kim Attend Xi's Military Parade | The Asia Trade, 9/2/25
Bloomberg Television· 2025-09-03 04:01
THIS IS "THE ASIA TRADE. " PAUL: ASIAN STOCKS SET TO MIRROR A WEEK WALL STREET SESSION. U.S. TRADERS STARTED IN ON A SOUR NIGHT -- A SOUR NOTE. THE U.S. REVOKES TSMC'S AUTHORIZATION TO SHIP A CENTRAL GEAR TO ITS CHIP-MAKING BASE WHICH FOLLOWS EARLIER ACTIONS AGAINST SAMSUNG AND SK HYNIX. STEPHEN: CHINA HOSTS A MILITARY PARADE MARKING THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WORLD WAR II WITH NEW WEAPONRY AND DIPLOMATIC CLOUT ON DISPLAY. PAUL: LET US LOOK OUT HOW MARKETS ARE TRACKING AHEAD OF THIS WEDNESDAY SESSIO ...
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The Wall Street Journal· 2025-09-02 08:49
Eight decades after the end of World War II, China’s Communist Party is still battling for recognition of its role in securing final victory https://t.co/cczmUWT8u5 ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-12 01:00
With no single leader, or set of leaders, Japan was led down “a maximally ruinous and self-destructive path” during the second world war, argues Eri Hotta. Read the historian’s essay for our Archive 1945 project in full https://t.co/nko34kiP4cIllustration: Dan Williams https://t.co/kk3SjRRNhJ ...
World closest to ‘nuclear precipice’ since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, says historian Garrett Graff
MSNBC· 2025-08-09 20:13
80 years ago today, on August 9th, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Three days earlier, the US had dropped a separate bomb on the city of Hiroshima. These bombs changed the course of history.The two bombs are estimated to have killed roughly 200,000 people in both cities. Half of them died on the first day. Many others died of burns and radiation sickness in the days, the weeks, and the months that followed.The destructive power of this new type of weapon was ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-09 12:20
Japan’s leaders led the country down “a maximally ruinous and self-destructive path” during the second world war, argues a historian in a guest essay for our 1945 Archive project https://t.co/kGEOh23sbq ...
Hiroshima bombing survivors recall their experiences 80 years later
NBC News· 2025-08-07 15:02
Also overseas, Japan and the world tonight, marking 80 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb dropped on Nagasaki. And all nearly a quarter of a million lives were lost by the aerial assault, which many historians say helped usher the end of World War II.NBC's Janice Mackie Freyer has the look at how the city is honoring those lives lost while fighting to ensure history does not repeat itself. Every morning at exactly 8:15, the chimes ring out across Hiroshim ...