General Groves and the Radiation ‘Hoax’

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. As I've noted in previous posts – and in my recent books Atomic Cover-up and The Beginning or the End--the U.S. after dropping the bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki was...

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John Mearsheimer on The Case for Antiwar.com

John Mearsheimer is the Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and one of the leading foreign policy scholars in America. Here’s what he has to say to you. Dear Antiwar.com Reader, One would think that in a...

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Dan Sanchez: A Note about My Health

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...

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Did Truman Ever Read John Hersey’s Hiroshima?

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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