Curtis LeMay

The rabid, apocalyptic Beat poetry that is "Mission with LeMay."

Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.

The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.

Why the rifles jammed.

On the preparation and aftershocks of the attack that marked the beginning of the Nuclear Age.

Trump did not create this situation, but he has accelerated its centrifugal forces.

It is hard not to figure the 1968 election as inaugurating the cultural and political polarisation of the American electorate so evident today.

A new book's insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by its own evidence.

American leaders called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki our 'least abhorrent choice,' but there were alternatives to the nuclear attacks.

A new book argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy.

From My Lai to Desert Storm to WMDs.

Did the United States have no other option but to drop atomic bombs on Japan in order to get them to surrender?

Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.

For decades they covered up the U.S. massacre of civilians at No Gun Ri and elsewhere. This is why we never learn our lessons.

The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

The U.S. has long supplied the world with AR-15 rifles. But only when we see its grim effects at home do politicians call for restricting its sale.

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.