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

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.

How the U.S. Navy Plans to War-Game the Arctic

May 21, 2015
The Navy is increasingly focused on possible future climate-change conflicts in the melting waters of the north and, in that context, has little or no intention of caretaking the environment when it comes to military exercises.

War of the Whales

Jul 18, 2014
Harmful, unintended consequences of technological advances, such as the deadly mass strandings of whales caused by naval sonar, need to be confronted, not denied.