Opinion
Opinion
Military
Our Nuclear Safeguards Are Slowly Disappearing
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.
Wounds of War
For Decades, the U.S. Called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘Tests’
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.”
Opinion
The Profiteers of Armageddon
Aug 1, 2023 "Oppenheimer" misses crucial aspects of the story— including how America’s nuclear-industrial complex profits on the arms race.
Film
From ‘Oppenheimer’ to ‘Repo Man’: Truthdig’s Guide to Nuclear Cinema
Jul 21, 2023 Surveying eight decades of onscreen atomic anxiety.
Arts & Culture
Christopher Nolan’s Plea, ‘Round About Midnight
Jul 20, 2023 “Oppenheimer” is an intimate, cautionary tale about the misery and the power of nuclear weapons.
Book Review
Life on the Brink: Jonathan Schell and the Legacy of Los Alamos
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?
Editorial Cartoons
Doomsday Clock
Feb 2, 2023
The Many-Sided, Overlapping Meanings of May Day
May 1, 2019 The working-class holiday has Marxist and anarchist industrial-era roots, but the significance of May 1 goes deeper than that.
The Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Rolls Off the Nuclear Assembly Line
Feb 17, 2019 The creation of a new generation of low-yield strategic nuclear warheads brings us closer to the edge of doom.
One Minute to Midnight
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.
