Arriving on the 80th anniversary of America dropping atomic bombs on Japan, Ghosts of Hiroshima by author Charles Pellegrino is a stunning work of history. The book takes a deeply reported, humanistic, even archaeological approach to one of the most devastating and horrific military actions ever taken. Aug. 6, 1945, …
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The fallout from President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities continued to dog the president at this week’s NATO summit in the Netherlands. The current ceasefire between Israel and Iran doesn’t seem totally stable, and a leaked Department of Defense intelligence report indicates the strikes may have been …
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The United States bombed Iran and risked a potential destabilization of an entire region and potential all-out war, but at least we crippled their nuclear program for the foreseeable future, right? It doesn’t appear so, actually. According to reports from multiple outlets, an initial assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies indicates …
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After President Donald Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, administration officials are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedented — and potentially calamitous — attacks were motivated by new intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons. Just months ago, Trump’s Director of National …
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Israel says its military action against Iran is intended to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring a nuclear weapon. As the United States considers joining Israel’s fight, the finer details of Iran’s nuclear weapons program and the negotiations to end it are fading into the background, and the WMD rationale …
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Russia’s unprecedented use of a massive ballistic missile against a city in central Ukraine is a message to Kyiv and its allies, and shows the war is escalating in unpredictable ways with just two months left in the Biden administration. In the early morning on Thursday, Russia struck Dnipro, an …
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