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Lawrence Wittner | Posted 02.08.2010 | World
he remarkable story of the Golden Rule began in the late 1950s, as the world public grew increasingly concerned about preparations for nuclear war.
Wired | Posted 02.01.2010 | Los Angeles
1951: For the first time, television viewers witness the live detonation of an atomic bomb blast, as KTLA in Los Angeles broadcasts the blinding light...
Jim Luce | Posted 01.31.2010 | New York
Manhattan said "Yes!" to a non-nuclear world last week as famed Japanese artist Seitaro Kuroda (video) and the Hiroshima Yes! Campaign kicked off "The...
AP | JAY ALABASTER | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
TOKYO — Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognized as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the end of ...
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 03.18.2010 | New York
There's no bookstore in the Ditmars section of Astoria. We don't need one. Harry puts the words out on the street -- his bookstand has been in the same spot for nearly a quarter century.
Tim Mohr | Posted 03.18.2010 | Entertainment
The awareness of mortality in 1980s nuke-pop was amplified by the inescapably bleak Cold War reality. With the fall of the Wall, much of the threat evaporated. The music, however, lives on.
Lester Sloan | Posted 03.18.2010 | Entertainment
Soupy's pies were the great equalizers. Everyone wanted to be hit with a pie thrown by Soupy, even Sinatra. No one was too big or important to get a pie in the face.
AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
TOKYO — A speech and a Nobel prize have raised hopes in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hirosh...
The Guardian | James Sturcke | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
Telling somewhat less than tasteful jokes about weapons of mass destruction has been an occasional pastime of a number of senior US Republican politic...
AP | GEIR MOULSON | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
BERLIN — Germany and France on Monday reinforced a call for Iran to respond to concerns about its nuclear program in September or face tougher s...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media
The Truman announcement of the atomic bombing firmly established the nuclear narrative. Journalists had to follow where the Pentagon led, and most endorsed the use of the bomb against Japan.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
For decades after the atomic attacks on Japan, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film that documented the bombing and its effects.
AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A majority of Americans surveyed believe dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II was the right thing to do, but su...
Adrienne Celt | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
The book is complex and sweeping in scope, seeking to tie together not just the disparate lives of its inhabitants, but also several of the most noted international tragedies in recent history.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
I'm not saying that there is nothing scary about North Korea getting the bomb but it is almost impossible for us to work our will on this abroad given our, ahem... track record.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.26.2009 | Home
Mark it down. The bar has been set. We now have the test by which we judge all actions taken by the leaders of America: Is it worse than burning 120,000 people to death? Call it the Buchanan Hiroshima-Nagasaki Standard. Appearing on Hardball this week to defend the Bush administration's use of torture, Pat Buchanan tried to offer a little perspective: "Is waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a worse thing than dropping two atomic bombs on people and burning 120,000 people to death? Sending 40,000 more to death by radiation?" I guess he preferred that WWII reference to the one from Paul Begala about us executing Japanese soldiers who waterboarded American POWs. Elsewhere on the torture front, Sean Hannity offered to be waterboarded for charity. A little like one of those charity auctions where celebrities agree to have lunch with the highest bidder. Only with a suffocation appetizer.
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.29.2009 | Living
In her current show, "Everything that Ever Existed Still Exists," Bird delicately -- even preciously -- petrifies images of infamous nuclear explosions in paint.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan must end. The healing -- moral, spiritual, economic, and in terms of violence -- can only begin when the US leaves these battlefields.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics
Sixty-three years after the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Bomb is still very much with us. The U.S. retains over 5000 nuclear weapons -- does this surprise you?
AP | KATSUMI KASAHARA | Posted 09.06.2008 | Home
HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima's mayor on Wednesday urged the next U.S. president to support a proposed ban on nuclear weapons, as Japan marked th...
Russ Wellen | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
While for many of us, nuclear weapons conjure up images of burning flesh, moral appeals are lost on the Pentagon. Its only concern is winning wars.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 02.28.2010 | Home