Japanese Man Has Spent 20 Years On Remote Island Alone, Naked
Some might say he's gone nuts. A 76-year-old man has decided to spend the latter part of his life in almost complete seclusion on the desert island...
Some might say he's gone nuts. A 76-year-old man has decided to spend the latter part of his life in almost complete seclusion on the desert island...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.31.2011
One of the great mysteries of the nuclear age was solved just six years ago: What was in the censored, and then lost to the ages, newspaper articles filed by the first reporter to reach Nagasaki following the atomic attack on that city on August 9, 1945.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.14.2011
"I felt so dishonored that I had to experience the atomic bomb twice. It's nothing to be boastful about. I could not talk to anyone about it because almost no one else met the bomb twice. So there was no one who could sympathize with me."
Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.12.2011
On August 6, 1945, Yoshito Matsushige wandered around Hiroshima for ten hours, carrying one of the few cameras that survived the atomic bombing and two rolls of film with twenty-four possible exposures.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.09.2011
No one in America ever wrote a bestselling book called Nagasaki, or made a film titled Nagasaki, Mon Amour. "We are an asterisk," Shinji Takahashi, a sociologist in Nagasaki, once told me, with a bitter smile.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.08.2011
The worst nuclear disaster to strike Japan since a single bomb fell over Nagasaki in 1945 occurred in the spring of 2011 at the Fukushima nuclear power plant following the epic tsunami.
Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson | Posted 10.06.2011
The Air Force presentation cited in the report claims that the Christian "Just War" tradition morally authorizes the use of nuclear weapons. This is categorically untrue.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.06.2011
On Aug. 6, 1945, President Truman faced the task of telling the world that America's crusade against fascism had culminated in exploding a revolutionary new weapon of extraordinary destructive power. From its very first words, the official narrative was built on a lie.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.05.2011
Sixty-six years ago today, the Nuclear Age began with a tragic bang, with the killing of over 100,000 people in Hiroshima, the vast majority women and children. Decades of a costly nuclear arms race followed.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.02.2011
The color U.S. military footage would remain hidden until the early 1980s, and has never been fully aired. It rests today at the National Archives in College Park, Md., in the form of 90,000 feet of raw footage labeled #342 USAF.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.25.2011
One of the great tales of Hollywood "censorship" remains little known today, nearly 65 years after it transpired. And who was right at the center of it? None other than President Harry S. Truman. He even got rid of the actor playing him in the MGM movie.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.19.2011
Google is suppressing ads for a book about... suppression. Three days later, they have not responded to my queries, or the protests of many others.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.17.2011
Perhaps Joseph Heller or some other master of dark comedy would have enjoyed this. I just received email notice from Google that it has suspended an ...
AP | By P. SOLOMON BANDA and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 08.28.2011
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- A wildfire burning near the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor dr...
Vivian Norris | Posted 07.08.2011
I received the following email a few days ago from a Russian nuclear physicist friend who is an expert on the kinds of gases being released at Fukushi...
Alexia Parks | Posted 07.02.2011
While the world news media has shifted its attention elsewhere, tragedy continues to unfold at Tokyo Electric Power's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...
Robert Koehler | Posted 06.21.2011
What if schoolchildren stood facing not the American flag every morning before class started but a photograph of a devastated Hiroshima? Do you think we'd start growing up as a country?
Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.04.2011
It was a bad idea all around for most of the human race. When Albert Einstein learned of the bombing of Hiroshima and the dawn of the Nuclear Age, he ...
David Ropeik | Posted 06.05.2011
True liberals, non-wobbly liberals, are supposed to oppose nuclear power. Period. True conservatives, for some reason, are supposed to deny climate change. Period.
Posted 05.25.2011
By A. James Rudin Religion News Service (RNS) Japan was the scene of the devastating opening chapter of the atomic age, and now it may be writing the...
Shan Cretin | Posted 05.25.2011
The contradiction between rhetoric and action on nuclear weapons policy should trigger a much-needed national debate on how to achieve real security in a changing world.
James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011
Trinity was the culmination of the Manhattan Project where, during World War II, some of the best scientific minds toiled to perfect a device they called "the gadget." With the force of 20,000 tons of TNT, the gadget broke windows 90 miles away
Rizwan Ladha | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm noticing what might be a curious trend lately in Hollywood: movies are being made about nuclear weapons again.
Tad Daley | Posted 05.25.2011
The nuclear-armed nations cannot continue to fantasize that starting a nuclear war could ever serve either their own national interests or the interests of the human community.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011
America's willingness to use nuclear weapons poses one of the globe's biggest threats. As Countdown to Zero illustrates, it's time we take that threat off the table.
Posted 04.17.2012