Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. – Charles Dickens On this day in 1945, two days out from the attack on Hiroshima: – On...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Three days until Hiroshima Day. Continuing my daily Countdown to Hiroshima over at my Pressing Issues blog, this time for August 3, 1945: – On Tinian, Little Boy is...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Today’s headline in The New York Times, while slow in arriving, should not have surprised anyone: ‘Barbenheimer’ Isn’t Funny in Nuclear-Scarred Japan. It seems that for...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. A sure sign of the cultural impact of a hit movie is that, after the first week, we are still seeing one article after another inspired by it, from the often silly (who...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Above: Catchy gospel tune, “Atomic Telephone,” from 1951, as the U.S. developed its H-bomb. I guess they could have called it “Atomic Teller-phone.” In the latest box...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. A headline on Washington Post story today: ‘Disturbing’ decline in global nuclear security, watchdog says. Nuclear security risks are rising for the first time in a...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell's newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. A reminder (inadequately supplied by Oppenheimer) of what happened at the other end of the bomb in Hiroshima. Based on my visit. Excerpted from my book Atomic Cover-up....
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell's newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Strong response to this new bloggy newsletter and my various articles and media appearances in past week or so has been gratifying, especially since it has drawn...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell's newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. My appearance on Democracy Now! yesterday morning led to a lot of social media interest and links and inquiries. Happy to continue to talk to old and new audiences as...
After months of hype, the Christopher Nolan film debuts this week. But related offerings are already here, including my own book.I knew this was coming and now it has just been posted to the New York Times site, the story of how two of my friends, Marty Sherwin and...
