The Great Atomic Film Cover-Up
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.
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.
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.
AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 10.27.2009 | 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...
Posted 10.10.2009 | World
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 ...
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.
Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
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.
Frida Berrigan | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
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.
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.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.
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...
Steven Crandell | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
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.
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.
Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
We now may be witnessing the emergence of nuclear proliferation as an export-based strategy for capital formation.
Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
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.
AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
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, ...
John Standerfer | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business
While Congress spent another day playing political "Clue" -- Senator Dodd -- with the red pen -- in the backroom, Ben Bernanke reminded us once again ...
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?
Steven Crandell | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
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.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
The terms "preemption" and "self defense" that Israeli hawks like Morris throw around are nothing but euphemisms for aggressive war and military violence.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media