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...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. ~ Anaïs Nin War, among other things, is a place of illusion. With the...
On COI #456, Kyle Anzalone discusses how Americans and Joe Biden now have different views on the war in Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Seventy-eight years ago this week, President Harry S Truman exulted when he heard the first report that the atomic bomb he had ordered dropped over Hiroshima by a B-29...
This is a video recording of a program held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2023, entitled "A Tribute to Daniel Ellsberg's Legacy & Celebration of Whistleblowers": REFLECTIONS ON A LIFE OF COURAGE A Tribute organized and produced by Diane...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. On this date in 1945, the day after the the Nagasaki bomb: MEMORANDUM TO: Chief of Staff. The next bomb of the implosion type had been scheduled to be ready for...
