Roundup

You Don't Want to Know About the Girls? The 'Comfort Women', the Japanese Military and Allied Forces in the Asia-Pacific War

by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Seventy years after the end of the Asia Pacific War, we have barely taken the first steps towards overcoming the problems of violence against women in war.

Roundup Top 10!

This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

Seven decades after Hiroshima, is there still a nuclear taboo?

by William Burr and Jeffrey Kimball

Seventy years ago, in August 1945, the United States destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic weapons. Since then, neither the United States nor any other nuclear-armed country has used such weapons against an adversary. Why not?

Hiroshima’s literary legacy: the ‘blinding flash’ that changed the world forever

by Daniel Cordle

John Hersey's article in the New Yorker on Hiroshima changed our understanding of the event. 

How a Young Joe Biden Turned Liberals Against Integration

by Jason Sokol

Forty years ago, the Senate supported school busing—until a 32-year-old changed his mind.

Five myths about the atomic bomb

by Gregg Herken

1. The bomb ended the war.

Viet Nam a Half Century Later

by David Swanson

Many lies about Vietnam are still told, and many truths are too little known.

Our 'Merciful' Ending to the 'Good War'

by Christian Appy

"Here we are, 70 years after the nuclear obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I'm wondering if we've come even one step closer to a moral reckoning with our status as the world's only country to use atomic weapons to slaughter human beings."

Defending Israel against Iranian Nuclear Aggression: War, Genocide, and International Law

by Louis René Beres

Any war launched by Iran could become genocidal. Israel has a right to respond to that kind of threat.

Hillary’s Too Fake. Donald’s Too Real.

by David Greenberg

2016 and the authenticity trap.

Bad Analogies Abounding on Iran Deal

by Jim Lobe

In their desperation to sabotage the nuclear deal between the P5+1 and Iran, neoconservative foes of the Joint Comprehensive Program of Action (JCPOA) are resorting to all kinds of historical analogies.

Year of the Woman

In the fall of 1973, a documentary following women’s rights proponents at the 1972 Democratic Convention played at a small Greenwich Village theater to crowds wrapping around the block. But after a limited run, the film disappeared for more than 40 years.

A Monument to the Tragedy that Has Befallen this Nation

by Danusha V. Goska

The National Museum of the American Indian.

Jeb Bush Admires a Really Lousy President — And It’s Not His Brother

by John Nichols

James K. Polk was condemned by John Quincy Adams, Henry David Thoreau, and Abraham Lincoln on issues of human bondage and lawless militarism.

Washington Post Op-Ed Highlights Dubious Secrets

by Tom Blanton

Clinton e-mails "Potentially Classified"; So Is This Posting

All the ways the new AP US history standards gloss over the country’s racist past

by Jake Flanagin

The revised AP curriculum significantly tones down language (and even mentions) of racial tension throughout US history.

How a survivor of Hiroshima and Truman's grandson became friends (podcast interview transcript)

by Brian Balogh

Brian Balogh speaks with Shigeko Sasamori, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, and Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of the man who ordered that strike, about the friendship that grew as both of them worked on a project to bring survivors’ stories to the U.S.

Trump: What's the Deal?

A 2012 documentary Trump tried to suppress can be seen on the web.

Roundup Top 10!

This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

Yes, It Could Happen Again

by Roger Cohen

Instability in Ukraine, chaos in Syria, conflict in the East China Sea—the trigger points for World War III are in place.