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The Great Atomic Film Cover-Up

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Atomic, Veterans Day, Nuclear, Veterans, Coverup, World War II, Media News

This country rushed into the nuclear age with its citizens having neither a true understanding of the effects of the bomb on human beings, nor why the atomic attacks drew condemnation around the world.

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Astoria Characters: The Veteran Bookseller

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.09.2009 | 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.

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Obama Asked To Visit Hiroshima Or Nagasaki, Japanese Atomic Bomb Cities

AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Hiroshima, President Obama, Hiroshima Anniversary, Japan, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Nagasaki, Barack Obama, Us President Apologies to Japan for Bomb, Obama Visiting Hiroshima, World News

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...

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Hiroshima 2020?: City Reportedly Considering Bid For Summer Olympics

Posted 10.10.2009 | World

Read More: Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Olympics, Chicago, Hiroshima Olympics, Hiroshima Summer Olympics, Hiroshima 2020, Hiroshima, Summer Olympics, Japan, Rio De Janeiro, World News

The Japanese city of Hiroshima is considering a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic games, according to Kyodo News and Japan Today. Up to 140,000 people ...

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The Day After Hiroshima: When the Atomic "Cover-Up" Began, 64 Years Ago

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspaper, Coverup, Nagasaki, Media, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Media News

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.

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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Manhattan Project, H Bomb, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Anniversary, World War II, Nagasaki, Nuclear Bomb, Pentagon, Nazi Bomb, Truman Hiroshima, Harry Truman, Soviets, President Jimmy Carter, President Truman, Russian Nuclear Posture, Pentagon Papers, Politics News

I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.

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For the Sixty-Fourth Time: No More Nuclear War

Frida Berrigan | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Hiroshima Anniversary, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, World News

Sixty-four years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we need more than symbols of peace. Memories of the destruction fade, while the terror of nuclear annihilation seems to have worn off almost completely.

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For 64th Anniversary: The Great Hiroshima Cover-Up -- And the Nuclear Fallout for All of Us Today

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: Nagasaki, Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima Pictures, Hiroshima Anniversary, Nuclear Proliferation, World News

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.

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Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Martini Movies, Francois Truffaut, Variety Magazine, On the Beach, Julius Rosenberg, Reagan, James Anderson, Al-Queda, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Los Ultimos Cinco, Enrico Fermi, Charles Bronson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stepin Fetchit, The Day the World Ended, Wille Zur Macht, Manhattan Project, Emperor Hirohito, Mokusatsu, Taliban, Carl Sagan, Mulholland Highway, Cosmos, William Phipps, Rod Serling, Pearl Harbor, Suzuki Kantaro, Harry Truman, Lord of the Flies, Genesis, Hiroshima, Arch Oboler, Leo Szilard, Klaus Fuchs, Potsdam Decleration, Douglass Macarthur, Nagasaki, Nietzsche, H.G. Welles, The Day After, Stalin, Orson Welles, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Lampkin, Uranium Fission, Fahrenhei 451, Nuclear Holocaust, Lavrentii Beria, Fat Man, Twilight Zone, William Golding, Red Army, Will Smith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Mao Tse-Tung, North Korea, African-American Poetry, 5ive, Schopenhauer, Manchuria, Gyokuon-Hoso, Semipalatinsk, Five, The Late Show, Living News

Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki Atom Bombs Was Right Decision According To Majority Of Americans: Poll

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Hiroshima Nagasaki, Hiroshima Bomb, Japan, World War II, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, North Korea, Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima Nagasaki Support, World News

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...

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Start a Revolution With A Video -- A 17 Year-Old Wins National Competition

Steven Crandell | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Contest, Video, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, President Obama, Nagasaki, Erik Choquette, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Teenagers, World News

The most effective way to start a revolution in the 21st century is with a camera and an internet connection, as Erik Choquette proves with an award-winning video on nuclear weapons.

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War and Pieces: A Review of Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows

Adrienne Celt | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Iraq War, Politics, Colonialism, Nagasaki, Book Review, Cia, Pakistan, Orange Prize for Fiction, Pakistani Literature, Novels, Globalization, India, Atomic Bomb, Burnt Shadows, Living News

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.

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North Korea Weighs Nuclear Option as Solution to its Economic Crisis

Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

Read More: North Korea Missile, Nuclear Weapons Proliferation, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea Nuclear Program, Hiroshima, North Korean Crisis, North Korean Economy, North Korean Nuclear Test, Nagasaki, North Korea Missile Test, North Korea, World News

We now may be witnessing the emergence of nuclear proliferation as an export-based strategy for capital formation.

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2,870 Mayors for Peace: Does Yours Belong?

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weaponry, Atomic Bomb Dome, Delhi, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, United Nations, Takeshi Araki, Sri Lanka, Boston, World Peace, Thought Leaders, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Denver, Global Citizens, Seattle, Nagasaki, 2020 Vision Campaign, Prague, Mayors for Peace, Tanzania, Tadatoshi Akiba, Aaron Tovish, Philadelphia, Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Santo Domingo, Mathew Luce, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Haiti, Japan, New York, Hiroshima Peace Park., Federation of the American Scientists, Tipping Point, Thousand Origami Cranes, San Francisco, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, Orphans International Worldwide, Senbazru, Lome, Galle, Moshi, Manado, Jacmel, World News

It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.

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Tsutomu Yamaguchi: Double A-Bomb Victim Found In Japan

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Hibakusha, Japan Double a-Bomb Victim, A-Bomb, Hiroshima, Japan a-Bomb Victim, Hiroshima Nagasaki Victim, Foreign Affairs, Nagasaki, World War II, Japan, Nagasaki/Japan, Hiroshima/Japan, Tutomu Yamaguchi, Tsotumu Yamaguchi, Tokyo/Japan, Tsutomuy Yamaguchi, Double a-Bomb Victim, World News

TOKYO — A 93-year-old Japanese man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both U.S. atomic bombings at the end of World War II, ...

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Bernanke Goes Nuclear

John Standerfer | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Deflation, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Federal Reserve, Aig, Ben Bernanke, Chris Dodd, Nagasaki, Great Depression, Business News

While Congress spent another day playing political "Clue" -- Senator Dodd -- with the red pen -- in the backroom, Ben Bernanke reminded us once again ...

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On the 63rd Anniversary: Why Hiroshima Matters More Than Ever

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, The Bomb, Atomic Bomb, Nagasaki, Politics News

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?

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Good Weapons Make Good Neighbors

Steven Crandell | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Frost, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Mending Wall, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Hiroshima, Peace, An Appeal to the Next President, Yasuo Fukuda, Japan, Sadako, Politics News

This week marks the 63rd anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and nowhere are people as united as they are in Japan in the conviction that nuclear weapons must never be used again.

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Professor Benny Morris: Nuclear War to Avoid Nuclear War

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Israel, Benny Morris, Nuclear Weapons, Middle East, Idf, Nagasaki, Benny Morris Nytimes, Politics News

The terms "preemption" and "self defense" that Israeli hawks like Morris throw around are nothing but euphemisms for aggressive war and military violence.

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