Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. A couple weeks back, I revealed how Robert Oppenheimer, despite deep reservations about the script (“idiotic”) and its many falsehoods, signed a release for MGM in 1946...
Photo by Birger Strahl on Unsplash I have some hard news to share. I recently had a seizure. After undergoing tests, I was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer (although I have never smoked) that has spread to my brain. The average life expectancy of those with my...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Seventy-seven years ago this week, an article by novelist and war reporter John Hersey (photo above), titled simply "Hiroshima," occupied the entire feature section of...
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Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. A bizarre, yet revealing, postscript to President Truman re-writing of the first movie about the atomic bomb, from MGM, The Beginning or the End – covered here...
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Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. In late-October 1946, a near-final version of the first Hollywood drama depicting the creation and use of the atomic bomb was screened for an elite audience at the...
July 27, 2023 is a historic date for the American veterans who participated in the Korean War. It will be the 70th anniversary of the signing of the temporary Military Armistice Agreement that stopped the fighting after two years of over 575 talks between warring...
Human Rights Watch released a new report on how Saudi forces have been killing Ethiopian migrants by the hundreds and possibly even the thousands over the last year and a half: Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Earlier this week, we looked at the genesis of John Hersey’s famous “Hiroshima” article for The New Yorker (which appeared 77 years ago this week) and book. Now here is...
