Dear Antiwar.com Readers, As the U.S. continues to escalate its role in the Ukraine war and is increasingly preparing for a fight with China in the Asia Pacific, antiwar and non-interventionist voices are needed now more than ever. Antiwar.com serves as a hub for...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. The much-praised screenplay by Christopher Nolan for his Oppenheimer has now been published in paperback, although out of stock at Amazon most days. I received my copy...
President Biden faces a dilemma. He’s running for re-election in what is likely to be an extremely close reelection race. But he’s locked into promoting endless tens of billions to win an unwinnable proxy war against Russia in Ukraine that the electorate no longer...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. The letter addressed to Mrs. Donna Owen arrived at her oceanfront Santa Monica home on October 28, 1945. The return address on the envelope revealed that it came from...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. In Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, we do not witness the twin, tragic, missions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki…the usual images of B-29s in flight, pilots in command and...
Eldar Mamedov responds to the hawkish screeching about the deal that the administration reached to get the Iranian government to free five American prisoners that it had been unjustly detaining: The outcry is clearly politically motivated, as it seeks to depict Biden...
“The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part from a purely military point of view in the defeat of Japan. The use of atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Yesterday’s post on the first article from Hiroshima here. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for free. One of the great mysteries of the Nuclear Age was solved...
I exchanged email with someone who works as a researcher for a peace institute. He acknowledged that the U.S. bears some responsibility for the crisis in Ukraine but he thinks the “the vast bulk of the responsibility for the invasion of Ukraine lies with Vladimir...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is still going strong at the box office, returning to the #2 spot, after one week in third place, still behind heavy Mattel Barbie but...
