This piece is from 2014, republished by TomDispatch on August 24, 2025. If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history of Homo sapiens,...
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This piece is from 2014, republished by TomDispatch on August 24, 2025. If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history of Homo sapiens, they might well break their calendar into two eras: BNW (before nuclear weapons) and NWE (the nuclear weapons era). The latter era, of course, opened on August 6, 1945, the first day of the countdown to what may be the inglorious end of this strange species, which attained the intelligence to discover the effective means to destroy itself, but — so the evidence suggests — not the moral and intellectual capacity to control its worst instincts. Day one of the NWE was marked by the “success” of Little Boy, a simple atomic bomb. On day four, Nagasaki...
This piece is from 2014, republished by TomDispatch on August 24, 2025. If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history of Homo sapiens,...
How do we commemorate it? The atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War on...
How do we commemorate it? The atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War on...
France, Germany and the United Kingdom started a process Thursday to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, further...
France, Germany and the United Kingdom started a process Thursday to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, further...
France, Germany and the United Kingdom started a process Thursday to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, further...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — France, Germany and the United Kingdom started a process Thursday to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — France, Germany and the United Kingdom started a process Thursday to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — France, Germany and the United Kingdom started a process Thursday to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran...
A swearing-in ceremony was held on August 26, at the Ministry of Environment, Science, and Technology (MEST) to induct the newly appointed Governing...