By Bill ASTORE
This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic device in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Next month, of course, marks the grim anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings of August 6 and 9, 1945.
The atomic nightmares of those two cities have morphed into the thermonuclear nightmare of far more powerful nuclear weapons that continues to haunt us still.
By Adeyinka Makinde
Global Research
July 26, 2025
"As for (German Chancellor) Mr. Merz, he has repeatedly said amusing things, including that his main goal is to once again make Germany the leading military power in Europe. He didn't even choke on the word 'again'." -Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, July 11th, 2025
On Wednesday, May 14th, 2025, the German Chancellor Friedrch Merz made a statement in the Bundestag asserting that he was intent on transforming the Bundeswehr into "the strongest European army".