The Dogs of War Are Winning

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Clearly, on this 22nd anniversary of 9/11, the dogs of war have won and continue to win. It hasn’t mattered that, over the last 16 years, after a 20-year military career, I’ve written hundreds of articles...

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The Physicist Who Quit Los Alamos, on Principle

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Back in July 1985, when I was editor of the leading antinuclear magazine Nuclear Times, the new issue of the venerable Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists landed on my...

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Talking and Writing Honestly About War

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. As a retired Air Force officer and military historian, I'm familiar with all kinds of euphemisms about killing, e.g. "precision bombing" and “collateral damage.”  Just as it's easier to kill at a distance,...

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