Obama in Hiroshima, Memorial Day and the Iran Deal (Video)

Juan Cole / Truthdig May 29, 2016 Historians will see Obama’s Iran nuclear deal as one of the greatest achievements of his presidency, and perhaps as a turning point in anti-proliferation through diplomacy. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

‘Big Stink, Necessary Evil’: A Poem That Will Change Your Perspective on the Atomic Bombings (Audio)

Staff / Truthdig May 25, 2016 Jill McDonough’s poem on the planes that followed and photographed the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II is a harrowing depiction of the justifications that follow mass destruction. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Obama Should Heed Hiroshima’s Survivors

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan May 12, 2016 As we left the memorial, Koji Hosokawa told us to stop. He looked us in the eye and told us not to forget the victims. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

From the Truthdig Archives: The Terror America Wrought

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 11, 2016 President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima on Friday, the first sitting U.S. president to do so since the World War II atomic bombings of Japan. To acknowledge the historic trip, Truthdig reposts Editor in Chief Robert Scheer's 2007 piece recalling the bombings. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

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 )

We All Are Islamic State

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Mar 28, 2016 The killings in Brussels or Paris and the killings in U.S. military strikes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria or Libya perpetuate the same dark lusts. The savage tit-for-tat game will not end until we rouse ourselves from our hypnotized state. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

From Japan to Vietnam, Radiation and Agent Orange Survivors Deserve Justice From the U.S.

Marjorie Cohn / Truthdig Aug 20, 2015 Besides being criminal, the United States' use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and its poisoning of Vietnam and Okinawa with Agent Orange are a shameful legacy The denial and cover-up of each of these crimes add US insult to injury The denial and cover-up of each of these crimes add insult to injury. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

A Vice Admiral and WWII Hero Condemns Nuclear Weapons 70 Years After Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Pamela Alma Weymouth / Truthdig Aug 8, 2015 Long-ago visits to ground zero of the atomic bombings convinced this highly decorated military man of the abject immorality of ever using such technology. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Seeing Nagasaki After the Atomic Bombing Made Lawrence Ferlinghetti an ‘Instant Pacifist’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 7, 2015 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the American poet and founder of City Lights bookstore -- who was in the US Navy during World War II -- said in the 2013 biographical documentary “Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder” that visiting the bombed-out Japanese city of Nagasaki turned him into a lifelong pacifistLawrence Ferlinghetti, the American poet and founder of City Lights bookstore—who was in the U Navy during World War II—said in the 2013 biographical documentary “Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder” that visiting the bombed-out Japanese city of Nagasaki turned him into a lifelong pacifist. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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Entering the Nuclear Age, Body by Body

By Susan Southard, TomDispatch Aug 6, 2015 In an excerpt from her new book, "Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War," Susan Southard takes us directly beneath the mushroom cloud over Nagaskai with five teenage survivors, through the very first moments of what has become an unending nuclear age. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 70 Years After the Atomic Bombs Were Dropped

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Aug 6, 2015 While the world has avoided nuclear attacks since those two days in 1945, the potential for nuclear devastation is forever hanging over us. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )