DefenceTalkPresident Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the war in Ukraine was part of Russia’s wider struggle against Western domination, and warned that the world is probably entering the “most dangerous” decade since the end of World War II. The Russian leader showed no sign of backpedaling on the eight-month-old invasion of Ukraine, and indeed painted […]https://www.defencetalk.com/putin-russia-battling-western-domination-as-ukraine-war-grinds-on-79562/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki capped six years of top-secret work by scientists from Europe and North America. Here is an overview of how that process unfolded. Einstein warning In 1939, Albert Einstein signs a letter warning US president Franklin D. Roosevelt of the destructive potential of nuclear fission, which was discovered by […]https://www.defencetalk.com/from-manhattan-to-hiroshima-the-race-for-the-atom-bomb-76123/

DefenceTalkWreckage from the USS Lexington, a US aircraft carrier which sank during World War II, has been found in the Coral Sea, a search team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced Monday. The wreckage was found Sunday by the team’s research vessel, the R/V Petrel, some 3,000 meters (two miles) below the surface more […]https://www.defencetalk.com/wreckage-found-of-wwii-aircraft-carrier-uss-lexington-71543/

DefenceTalkHundreds of Tokyo residents scrambled for cover Monday (Jan 22) in the Japanese capital’s first evacuation drill for a military attack since World War II, amid ongoing tensions over North Korea’s nuclear programme. A loudspeaker blared out a terrifying warning at the drill, held in a Tokyo amusement park: “We have information that a missile […]https://www.defencetalk.com/tokyo-simulates-first-military-attack-since-wwii-amid-north-korea-threat-71110/

DefenceTalkBRUSSELS, Belgium: The well-preserved wreck of a German submarine sunk during World War I has been found in the North Sea and may have the bodies of its crew still on board, Belgian officials said Tuesday. A diver who has explored the wreck, lying in 30 meters (100 feet) of water off the port of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/wwi-german-submarine-wreck-found-off-belgium-70495/

DefenceTalkResearchers announced Saturday they discovered wreckage of the lost warship the USS Indianapolis, 72 years after the World War II cruiser was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The wreckage was found in the Philippine Sea 5.5 kilometers (3.4 miles) below the surface, according to philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who headed the civilian research […]https://www.defencetalk.com/wreckage-of-lost-ship-uss-indianapolis-found-after-seven-decades-70320/

DefenceTalkBefore there could be women flying combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, there were the pioneers of the Army Air Forces of World War II. On July 5, 1943, the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, or WAFS, and the Women’s Flying Training Detachment merged into a single unit for all female pilots. The new group called […]https://www.defencetalk.com/wasps-first-women-in-history-to-fly-for-us-army-air-corps-67077/

DefenceTalkBEIJING: China kicked off a huge military ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II on Thursday (Sep 3), as major Western leaders stayed away. President Xi Jinping oversaw the event, riding in a black car past thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks and missiles ahead of a parade through […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-celebrates-70-years-since-victory-over-japan-65269/

DefenceTalkSoldiers will march, gleaming hardware will roll, and warplanes will fly above Tiananmen Square at China’s WWII anniversary parade, but major Western leaders are shunning the show as Beijing assumes an increasingly assertive role on the global stage. Chinese authorities are pulling out all the stops for Thursday’s commemoration, mobilising hundreds of thousands of Beijing […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinas-wwii-military-parade-a-show-of-strength-65266/

DefenceTalkGerman Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Tuesday that the issue of whether Germany should pay reparations to Greece for the Nazi occupation during World War II had been settled, while not denying the country’s moral responsibility. Athens’ new radical leftist government has stepped up pressure on Berlin over the emotional and controversial issue of war […]https://www.defencetalk.com/germanys-schaeuble-insists-greece-war-payments-settled-64111/