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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

Curtis LeMay holding plans for the bombing of Tokyo.

Malcolm Gladwell on the Hard Decisions of War

Gladwell’s “The Bomber Mafia” looks at the air campaign against Japan in World War II and finds a surprising hero in Curtis LeMay.

by Thomas E. Ricks via New York Times on April 25, 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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