Former National Security adviser Michael Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell tells FOX Business’ Elizabeth MacDonald that she has ‘a lot of questions for’ former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.
LA Times Op-Ed: U.S. leaders knew we didn’t have to drop atomic bombs on Japan to win the war. We did it anyway
GAR ALPEROVITZ AND MARTIN J. SHERWINAugust 6, 2020
Before the bombings, Eisenhower had urged at Potsdam, “the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”
Branko Marcetic on Trump’s Dangerous Russia Hawkishness
scott horton showAugust 6, 2020
Branko Marcetic discusses a recent move by the Trump administration that will grant unprecedented powers to the CIA to conduct cyber attacks against foreign countries.
Gar Alperovitz: The War Was Won Before Hiroshima
the nationAugust 6, 2020
Seventy years after the bombing, will Americans face the brutal truth?
Jessica Matthews: The New Nuclear Threat
NYRBAugust 6, 2020
Seventy-five years ago, at 8:16 on the clear morning of August 6, the world changed forever.
BOAS: What Europeans believe about Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why it matters
BOASAugust 6, 2020
Did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shorten the war, and were they necessary to force the Japanese surrender? Many people believe the answer to both questions is yes: In dropping the Bomb, America chose the lesser of two evils.
Bonnie Kristian: Trump’s reasoning is bad, but withdrawing troops from Germany is a good idea
RSAugust 4, 2020
The Pentagon’s announcement that around 12,000 U.S. troops will leave Germany, reducing the American force presence there by a third and continuing decades of similar reductions, was widely met with derision in Washington from policymakers on both sides of the aisle.
Vox: “The end of arms control as we know it”
alex wardAugust 4, 2020
The last agreement limiting America’s and Russia’s nuclear arsenals is months away from expiring.
Responsible Statecraft: How to do trilateral arms control
jessica budlongAugust 3, 2020
The Trump administration appears to be holding the renewal of the bilateral New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, hostage with the fallacy that China should, and would immediately, join trilateral negotiations with the United States and Russia.
Stephen Walt: Countries Should Mind Their Own Business
FPAugust 3, 2020
What we are seeing, in short, is a reassertion of sovereign independence on the part of great and small powers alike.