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The First Hague Conference in 1899: A meeting in the Orange Hall of Huis ten Bosch palace – collections of the Imperial War Museums.

Oh, the Humanity

Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.
by John Fabian Witt via Just Security on September 8, 2021
Plane with an eye in it and a bird's silhouette around.

Did Making the Rules of War Better Make the World Worse?

Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.
by Dexter Filkins via The New Yorker on September 2, 2021
Miners with pick axes sit on rocks.

How Yellowcake Shaped The West

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water and people.
by Jonathan P. Thompson via High Country News on July 30, 2021
A mannequin family in a house at Operation Doorstep in Nevada, 7,500 feet from the blast.

Blackness and the Bomb

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it's long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts.
by Erica X. Eisen via Boston Review on June 24, 2021
Dr. Lawrence Matsuda portrait, 2015, Painting by Alfredo M. Arreguin

Japanese Internment, Seattle in the 50s, and the First Asian-American History Class in Washington

Lawrence Matsuda talks about his family history, his experiences of discrimination, and his work in bilingual and Asian American representation in education.
by Lawrence Matsuda, Casey McNerthney via History Link on June 16, 2021
Students saying the pledge of allegiance in a classroom

The Fog of History Wars

Old feuds remind us that history is continually revised, driven by new evidence and present-day imperatives.
by David W. Blight via The New Yorker on June 9, 2021
Mochitsura Hashimoto, center, former Japanese sub commander, testifies at the Dec. 13, 1945, session of the Navy court-martial in Washington, trying Capt. Charles B. McVay III.

How a WWII Japanese Sub Commander Helped Exonerate a U.S. Navy Captain

After the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945, Mochitsura Hashimoto, a Japanese sub commander, pushed to exonerate Navy Capt. Charles McVay.
by Daryl Austin via Retropolis on June 6, 2021
Cover of the book, "Restricted Data: the History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States" by Alex Wellerstein

Secrets, Sins, and Nuclear Insecurity

Only a certain kind of person, both foolish and resolute, would choose to study a subject so extensive, yet so restrictive, as the secrets of nuclear weapons.
by Joshua Roebke via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 19, 2021
An American propaganda leaflet dropped ahead of Curtis LeMay’s firebomb campaign over Japan.

Narrative Napalm

Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.
by Noah Kulwin via The Baffler on May 17, 2021

The Pantomime Drama of Victims and Villains Conceals the Real Horrors of War

Innocent, passive, apolitical: after the Holocaust, the standard for ‘true’ victimhood has worked to justify total war.
by Dirk Moses via Aeon on May 10, 2021
Asian-American men waiting to be questioned by white police officers

Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience

If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.
by Mae Ngai via The Atlantic on April 21, 2021
White Sands National Park on a sunny day.

The Lure of the White Sands

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Geronimo, Robert Oppenheimer, Steven Spielberg, and the mysteries of New Mexico's desert.
by Rich Cohen via New York Review of Books on March 29, 2021
The ocean

Chemical Warfare’s Home Front

Since World War I we’ve been solving problems with dangerous chemicals that introduce new problems.
by Elizabeth Kolbert via New York Review of Books on February 11, 2021

America's Decades-Old Obsession With Nuking Hurricanes (and More)

If you think dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane is a bad idea, wait'll you see what they had in mind for the polar ice caps.
by Garrett M. Graff via Wired on August 26, 2019
A UFO in front of hills

More UFOs Than Ever Before

What explains the apparently sudden spike in intergalactic traffic after WWII? If Cold War anxieties are to blame, why have sightings persisted?
by Rich Cohen via The Paris Review on August 26, 2019

A Brief History of the History Wars

Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on August 20, 2019
Dr. Strange Love, from the Stanley Kubrick film of the same name

Watching the End of the World

The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?
by Stephen Phelan via Boston Review on June 11, 2019

The Lethal Crescent

The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The Nation on December 20, 2018

'Atomic Bill' and the Birth of the Bomb

Reconsidering the journalistic ethics of a New York Times reporter who chronicled the Manhattan Project from the inside.
by Mark Wolverton via UnDark on August 9, 2017

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