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Obama’s Trillion-Dollar Nuclear-Arms Train Wreck

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Apr 15, 2016 As with his pledge to close the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Obama's pledge to move the U toward nuclear disarmament seems to have been abandoned. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

65 Years After Hiroshima: Truman’s Choices

Stanley Kutler / Truthdig Aug 6, 2010 Today, it is common wisdom that President Truman had only two simple, stark choices: to use the bomb or invade and suffer a “million” casualties. There was, however, an alternative.It's believed that President Truman had only two choices: to use the bomb or invade and suffer a “million” casualties. There was an alternative. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Source of America’s Imperial Presidency

William Pfaff / Truthdig Jan 20, 2010 A new book inspired by liberal disappointment with President Barack Obama blames the atomic bomb for America's misadventures This strikes me as interesting but completely wrongA new book blames the atomic bomb for America's misadventures. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdig Classic: The Terror America Wrought

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Aug 6, 2009 This week marks the anniversary of a U.S. attack that deliberately took the lives of thousands of children on their way to school. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

BLANK Aug 6, 2009 Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame writes that “official secrecy and deceptions about our nuclear weapons posture and policies and their possible consequences have threatened the survival of the human species.”Daniel Ellsberg writes that deceptions about our nuclear weapons have "threatened the survival of the human species.” Dig deeper ( 26 Min. Read )