Vonnegut and The Bomb

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer and the Legacy of His Bomb. Last week, in exploring two major new pieces at The Atlantic (by Tom Nichols and Jeffrey Goldberg), I was not aware that they came from a kind of “special issue” marking...

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James Cameron Going Nuclear for Next Movie?

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Last week, in exploring major new pieces at The Atlantic and The New Yorker, I observed that coverage related to the 80th anniversary of the dawn of the nuclear era...

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Sorrowful 249th Birthday Gift to Uncle Sam

America begins its 250th year with an ignominious milestone in its worldwide military operations killing innocents in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. That milestone is the world’s first trillion dollar budget supporting America’s murder and mayhem worldwide The...

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