Cuba – One week ago today, Cubans woke up to the news that the 90-year old leader Fidel Castro had died. It was an event much expected and anticipated, given Fidel’s ailing health and advanced years, but it still took Cubans and the world by surprise. It was a particularly hard blow coming so soon […]
Penned from the crooked
timber of humanity
Further Acts
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Forty-Three Seconds to Hiroshima
Introduction The uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, is frequently described as the “simple” atomic bomb. Nearly… Read More →
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Operation Crossroads, Part VII
Crossroads Baker, showing the white surface “crack” under the ships, and the top of the hollow spray column. Read More →
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From Little Boy to Peacekeeper
Introduction On July 1, 1946, less than a year after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a B-29 bomber… Read More →
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Power: A Radical View
Power: A Radical View began its surprisingly long life as a very short book (now the first chapter of this one) in 1974… Read More →