Hiroshima

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…

BURNS HARBOR, Ind. The Navy says it will commission its new USS Indianapolis combat vessel at a northwestern Indiana port Saturday. The ceremony marking the ship's entry into the Navy's active fleet is set to begin at 10 a.m. at Burns Harbor along Lake Michi…

There are about 5,000 members of the U.S. military, mostly airmen, stationed at the huge, strategically located air base in Incirlik, Turkey, northwest of the Syrian border. The American forces at Incirlik are also the custodians of about 50 B61 nuclear bomb…

Author’s preface: About 18 months ago the distinguished American historian and scientist, Noam Chomsky, directed my attention through emails to Otto Skorzeny’s ‘My Commando Operations’, a book on which the below article is largely based upon and, a little la…

On April 9, 1942, the United States surrendered Bataan to the Imperial Army of Japan in the very heart of the six bloody years of World War II. It was the largest surrender in American history 75,000 troops since the surrender that ended the Civil War eighty …

Despite years of spiraling relations with Turkey, the United States has myopically continued to store an estimated 50 nuclear bombs in the country. Even now, after Turkey launched a devastating offensive on Oct. 9 against Americas Kurdish allies in Syria, dis…