Thomas Midgley Jr.: The Inventor Who Poisoned the Sky Twice

Raymond on February 11, 2026

He was celebrated as one of the great inventors of his age, hailed for two miracle discoveries that made the modern world run smoother and cooler. Both turned out to be among the most catastrophic substances ever released into the atmosphere. This is the strange, tragic story of Thomas Midgley Jr.

The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs: Tsutomu Yamaguchi at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Raymond on February 6, 2026

On August 6, 1945, a young engineer stood three kilometres from the centre of Hiroshima when the sky turned to fire. Burned and half-blind, he made his way home to recover — to a city called Nagasaki. Three days later, standing in his office describing the horror he had just escaped, he watched the same blinding light fill the window a second time. This is the almost unbelievable true story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi.