Wounds of War

Nobel Prize-Winning Japanese Nuclear Survivors See Themselves in Gaza

Juan Cole / Informed Comment Oct 15, 2024 Their certainty that the “people of Gaza” would win the prize speaks volumes about how the genocide is viewed outside the North Atlantic world. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Wounds of War

For Decades, the U.S. Called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘Tests’

Norman Solomon / Truthdig Aug 3, 2023 “Perhaps 10,000 military personnel lost their lives in the bomb but the vast majority of the 125,000 dead in Hiroshima would be women and children.” Three days later, when an atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki, “it was officially described as a ‘naval base’ yet less than 200 of the 90,000 dead were military personnel.” Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

George Orwell Predicted Our Current Dystopia

Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch Aug 19, 2019 In the real-life version of the dystopian novel "1984" we seem to be caught in, Trump is our very own idiosyncratic version of Big Brother. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

America’s Forgotten Support of Adolf Hitler

Paul Jay / The Real News Network Jun 6, 2019 On the anniversary of D-Day, American University's Peter Kuznick reflects on one of the most shameful chapters in our nation's history. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Remembering Our Nuclear Past as We Speed Toward an Apocalyptic Future

Susan Southard / TomDispatch Jan 20, 2019 We must never forget the terrible Nagasaki bombing, especially now that nuclear weapons far more powerful than the atomic bomb are commonplace. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

‘A Landscape in Hell’: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Eyewitness Account of Nagasaki Bombing Aftermath

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Aug 9, 2018 The legendary poet was in the city shortly after its destruction. This week, on the 73rd anniversary of the second atomic bombing, a top U.N. official and the city's mayor called for nuclear disarmament. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Aug 6, 2018 The story of how an iconic sculpture in Southern California was saved leads our commemoration of the 73rd anniversary of the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Chomsky Challenge for Americans

Paul Street / Truthdig Jun 13, 2018 Monstrous U.S. war crimes since the early 1950s have gone down George Orwell's "memory hole." Now, we have no concept of empathy—or reality. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Never Forget Nagasaki

Rory Fanning / Jacobin Jan 20, 2018 Two U.S. military veterans go to Japan to discuss the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Pope Francis Fears the Possibility of Nuclear War

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Jan 15, 2018 The world now stands "at the very limit," said the leader of the Catholic Church. "I am really afraid of this.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Trump Is Playing With Nuclear Fire

By Marjorie Cohn / Truthout Oct 13, 2017 The president's bombastic threats may portend a catastrophic attack that could affect the entire world. Dig deeper ( 6 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 )