Our ‘Merciful’ Ending to the ‘Good War’

By Christian Appy, TomDispatch Aug 5, 2015 Perhaps it’s time, so many decades into the age of apocalyptic peril, to review the American apologia for nuclear weapons -- the argument in their defense -- that ensured we would never have to say we're sorry. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

The Man Who Survived Hiroshima: ‘I Had Entered a Living Hell on Earth’

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Aug 4, 2015 “There were people crying out for help, calling after members of their family," Sunao Tsuboi said of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which he survived when he was a college student. "I saw a schoolgirl with her eye hanging out of its socket. People looked like ghosts, bleeding and trying to walk before collapsing." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

HISTORY: The AP Reports the Devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 3, 2015 On the 70th anniversary of the United States’ slaughter of civilians in the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities, The Associated Press has made its reporting on the bombings and Japan's surrender available to readers. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Remembering Hiroshima in an Age of Neoliberal Barbarism

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Sep 12, 2014 Once an emancipatory project predicated on the right to study and engage the past critically, history under the reign of neoliberalism has receded into a depoliticizing culture of consumerism, a wholesale attack on science, the glorification of military ideals, an embrace of the punishing state, and a nostalgic invocation of the greatest generation. Dig deeper ( 25 Min. Read )

How Many Minutes to Midnight? Hiroshima Day 2014

By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch Aug 7, 2014 Human history can be broken into two eras: BNW (before nuclear weapons) and NWE (the nuclear weapons era). The latter opened on Aug. 6, 1945. As we enter its 70th year, we should be contemplating with wonder that we have survived. We can only guess how many years remain. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 69 Years Later

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Aug 7, 2014 "I hate war," Koji Hosokawa told me as we stood next to the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Do Yourself a Favor: Watch the British Pathé’s Bizarre and Chilling News Clips Now on YouTube

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Apr 19, 2014 The archive of the Pathé cinema newsreels that documented the "first 70 years of the 20th century" in the United Kingdom and beyond has been released onto YouTube. Some of the videos, such as those of the human fish and the 140-pound 3-year-old, are just too weird not to watch. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Fukushima: An Ongoing Warning to the World

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jan 16, 2014 "I write these facts as dispassionately as I can in the hope that they will act as a warning to the world," wrote the journalist Wilfred Burchett from Hiroshima. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Left, Right & Center’: NSA Reform and Bezos Buys the Post

Staff / Truthdig Aug 10, 2013 Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists discuss President Obama's suggested changes to the National Security Agency surveillance policy. With four major categories of reform, he attempts to ease skepticism with an "amend it, don't end it" approach. How did it go over? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Gives Russia the Hand

Staff / Truthdig Aug 9, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Nato Green, Ninotchka Rosca, Phil Yu, Leilani Albano, Laura Carlsen, Bill Boyarsky, and Robert Scheer on racism three ways, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bradley Manning and Obama's change of heart. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Little Bit of Everything

Staff / Truthdig Aug 9, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Nato Green, Ninotchka Rosca, Phil Yu, Leilani Albano, Laura Carlsen, Bill Boyarsky, and Robert Scheer on racism three ways, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bradley Manning and Obama's change of heart. Dig deeper

The Ancient Brain, Modern Times and the Atomic Bomb

By K.C. Cole Aug 6, 2013 August is a great month for celebrating human stupidity. On Aug. 6, 1945, we all but disappeared Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, and then did it again, three days later, at Nagasaki. And now we barely seem to care. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )