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Guest AuthorMay 20, 2016

President Barack Obama’s visit to the Japanese Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park later this month is an opportunity for the world to reflect on the United States’ decision to use atomic weapons to destroy the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Seventy thousand civilians were incinerated by the Hiroshima blast and another 70,000 would die […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 10, 2015

Matthew Carr’s new book, Sherman’s Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War, is presented as “an antimilitarist military history” – that is, half of it is a history of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s conduct during the U.S. Civil War, and half of it is an attempt to trace echoes of Sherman through major […]

Bob SparksAugust 5, 2014

This week marks two rather grim anniversaries that few in this country will mark. They are significant events in U.S. and world history, but they have either faded over time or were events many wished to forget. On Aug. 6, 1945 the city of Hiroshima, Japan nearly ceased to exist after the first atomic bomb […]

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