Archive for the ‘Weapons’ Category
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The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
16 May 2019When I first saw the title of Michael Lewis’s 2018 book, The Fifth Risk, my associative circuitry immediately connected…
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The Damned Days of August: 6th and 9th
06 Aug 2018Today is August 6, 73 years after the first use of a nuclear explosion in a war in human…
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Black Rain, Two Movies — Hiroshima After the Bomb
23 May 2018The enormous, instantaneous destructive power of atomic weapons is the first, and sometimes the only, image that comes to mind…
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On War with Gwynne Dyer
05 Jun 2017On War with Gwynne Dyer is a seven episode television series done in 1983 under the auspices of the Canadian…
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Mainlining Movies
12 Oct 2015October brings the Mill Valley Film Festival to town. Several towns, in fact. And theaters enough to show 170 movies or…
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Ethics for Wars to Come
10 Feb 2014Samuel G Freedman in his always interesting once-a-week column On Region in the New York Times, features Robert H Latiff,…
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August 9, 68 Years Later
09 Aug 2013More at BBC and The Guardian
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Laotian Women Dig for US ‘Bombies’ — Still
06 Apr 2013A friend who has been following my recent trip to Southeast Asia, including a report from the COPE facility in Vientiane, Laos…
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Waiting for the Bullets to Fly
17 Apr 2007Something is completely fubared here. Lucinda Roy, a long-time member of the English faculty at Virginia Tech had Cho as…