My ‘Atomic Bowl’ in The New Yorker This Week

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer and the Legacy of His Bomb. My latest film, “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero – and Nuclear Peril Today” has been airing over PBS stations this past month and streaming for free (key links...

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Vonnegut and The Bomb

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer and the Legacy of His Bomb. Last week, in exploring two major new pieces at The Atlantic (by Tom Nichols and Jeffrey Goldberg), I was not aware that they came from a kind of “special issue” marking...

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James Cameron Going Nuclear for Next Movie?

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Last week, in exploring major new pieces at The Atlantic and The New Yorker, I observed that coverage related to the 80th anniversary of the dawn of the nuclear era...

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When a Famous War Reporter Stood Up to Rumsfeld

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Friday afternoon, President Biden posthumously awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to my old friend Joe Galloway. No one could accuse veteran war reporter Galloway of being...

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