Robert Scheer / TruthdigMay 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 )
By Amy Goodman and Denis MoynihanApr 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 )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigMar 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 )
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Marjorie Cohn / TruthdigAug 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 )
Pamela Alma Weymouth / TruthdigAug 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 )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 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 )
By Amy Goodman and Denis MoynihanAug 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 )
By Christian Appy, TomDispatchAug 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 )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 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 )
Amy Goodman / TruthdigAug 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 )
Staff / TruthdigAug 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 )
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