Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer and the Legacy of His Bomb. Greg Mitchell is author of fourteen books and director of five films for PBS since 2022. In a previous life, he was a longtime editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. His...
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...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer and the Legacy of His Bomb. My award-winning film “The Atomic Bowl” started streaming on PBS.org and PBS apps last week and via Vimeo (you can easily watch it via links here), plus it is airing over...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Just to start briefly: As some know, this is a subject that I have explored in hundreds of articles, and in four books, since 1984, and now in an award-winning film “The Atomic...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Just to start briefly: So today is the big day, as my latest film, “The Atomic Bowl,” started streaming this morning over PBS.org and all PBS apps (AppleTV, Roku, Android devices,...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer and the Legacy of His Bomb. Returning again with coverage of yet another feature in the new special issue of The Atlantic with numerous important pieces on nuclear threat (and history) marking the...
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...
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...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Quick post here to report that Trump is getting blowback from his recent reference to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The mayor of Hiroshima, for example, has invited Trump to...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. On July 4, 1945, the great atomic scientist Leo Szilard finished a letter that would become the strongest (and one of the very few) real attempts at halting President...
