Opinion

60 Years After Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy” Campaign Ad

Norman Solomon / Truthdig Sep 9, 2024 The 2024 election is completely lacking in wisdom about nuclear weapons and relations between nuclear superpowers. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Military

Our Nuclear Safeguards Are Slowly Disappearing

Artin DerSimonian / Responsible Statecraft Oct 27, 2023 Russia pulling out of the test ban treaty pulls us further from a time when we took the threat of Armageddon more seriously. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Wounds of War

For Decades, the U.S. Called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘Tests’

Norman Solomon / Truthdig Aug 3, 2023 “Perhaps 10,000 military personnel lost their lives in the bomb but the vast majority of the 125,000 dead in Hiroshima would be women and children.” Three days later, when an atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki, “it was officially described as a ‘naval base’ yet less than 200 of the 90,000 dead were military personnel.” Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Opinion

The Profiteers of Armageddon

William D. Hartung / TomDispatch Aug 1, 2023 "Oppenheimer" misses crucial aspects of the story— including how America’s nuclear-industrial complex profits on the arms race. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Film

From ‘Oppenheimer’ to ‘Repo Man’: Truthdig’s Guide to Nuclear Cinema

Truthdig staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2023 Surveying eight decades of onscreen atomic anxiety. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Arts & Culture

Christopher Nolan’s Plea, ‘Round About Midnight

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Jul 20, 2023 “Oppenheimer” is an intimate, cautionary tale about the misery and the power of nuclear weapons. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Book Review

Life on the Brink: Jonathan Schell and the Legacy of Los Alamos

Alexander Zaitchik / The New Republic Jul 20, 2023 The nuclear genie can never be stuffed back into the bottle. But are we condemned to live forever on the edge of annihilation? Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Editorial Cartoons

Doomsday Clock

Randall Enos Feb 2, 2023 Dig deeper

The Many-Sided, Overlapping Meanings of May Day

Paul Street / Truthdig May 1, 2019 The working-class holiday has Marxist and anarchist industrial-era roots, but the significance of May 1 goes deeper than that. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Rolls Off the Nuclear Assembly Line

James Carroll / TomDispatch Feb 17, 2019 The creation of a new generation of low-yield strategic nuclear warheads brings us closer to the edge of doom. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

One Minute to Midnight

Scott Ritter / Truthdig Feb 12, 2019 The world is on the edge of a catastrophe, but the U.S. is whistling blithely down the path of nuclear destruction it has helped to pave. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Russia Madness on the Eve of Destruction: Hegemony Trumps Survival

Paul Street / Truthdig Apr 4, 2018 What will historians say a century from now, if they still exist? That the most intelligent known species in the universe lost its mind. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )