Hiroshima

A steel-cutting ceremony marked the start of construction for France's new frigate at Naval Group's Lorient, France, shipyard. The shipyard ceremony Thursday was led by French Defense Minister Florence Parly, and guests included Adm. Nicolaos Tsunis of the G…

The seven Catholic peace activists who were convicted on October 24 for their symbolic protest against nuclear weapons at the Kings Bay Naval Base are now facing a two-to-three-month wait to hear their prison sentences. They could face more than 20 years in p…

Photograph Source: A Trident II missile fires its first stage after an underwater launch – Public Domain On October 24, following a three-day trial in Brunswick, GA, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine base were convicted on three …

At 81, Nobuhiko Obayashi has terminal lung cancer, but his confrontation with death began so long ago it has characterized his decades of filmmaking. Obayashi has stayed true to himself through more than 40 movies and thousands of TV shows, commercials and o…

by Kevin M. Shanley Mao beside Joseph Stalin at a ceremony celebrating Stalin's 71th birthday in Moscow in December 1949 Recently, I attended a birthday party for my nephew who was born in the year 1949. Reflecting on the year of his birth, I was struck by…

Key point: North Korea's bad faith and Washington's inconsistencies combined for a disaster. The North Korean state had two stepparents: the Soviet Union, which brought Kim Il-sung to power in 1945, and China, which prevented his overthrow by UN forces in 19…

Key point: Although nukes would have likely worked, it would have heated up the Cold War and caused an uproar. In his 1964 book Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Gold Medal Books, Greenwich, Conn.), Bob Considine writes, MacArthurs final plan for winning the Korean Wa…

On August 2, U.S. President Trump notified Russia that it would withdraw from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) -- initially signed between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, which had expired earlier this year. This set the stage f…

Key point: What follows would have happened if Truman did not drop the Atomic bombs. One of the most controversial decisions in history was President Harry Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Some argue that Trum…

People are suffering, People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction, child prophet Greta Thunberg announced through tears at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York City last month, and all you can talk…