Atom Bomb Nuclear Explosion by Burnt Pineapple Productions is licensed under CC 1.0 / Flickr By Frida Berrigan / TomDispatch What’s in your basement? Mine is full of things I’ve mostly forgotten about tools I bought for projects I never completed, long abandoned sports equipment, furniture I planned on refinishing ages ago, and unused cans of paint I thought I wanted when someone was giving them away. We’ve owned this house for nearly 12 years, since just weeks before our son was born. In all
Atom Bomb Nuclear Explosion by Burnt Pineapple is licensed under CC0 1.0 / Flickr By Joshua Frank / TomDispatch Israel’s robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7th. Like so many other colonial projects, Israel was born of terror and has necessitated the use of violence to occupy Arab territory and segregate Palestinians ever since. The
In truth, the situation couldn’t be simpler: we need to abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us. Hopefully, Oppenheimer will help prepare the ground for progress in that all too essential undertaking, beginning with a frank discussion of what’s now at stake.