In a Perilous Time: Nuclear Dangers, Politics, and the New Cold War

In a Perilous Time Nuclear Dangers Politics and the New Cold War

UN Secretary-General Guterres warns that “Humanity is on a knife’s edge. The risk of nuclear weapons being used has reached heights not seen since the Cold War.”  New Cold War bloc systems have reemerged with the “lattice-like” network of U.S. Indo-Pacific alliances, NATO,  and the Chinese, Russian. North Korean and Belarussian entente. In the US, … Read more

BCTV Interview with Joseph Gerson

Joseph Gerson Interview

Conversation with Dr. Joseph Gerson on U.S. Empire and Nuclear Weapons.  Recorded March 2024 / Originally aired on BCTV: 3/26/24 Faramarz Farbod interviews Dr. Joseph Gerson, the author of four books, including Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World (2007) and With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and … Read more

Finding Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Oppenheimer Film

Finding Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Oppenheimer Film

By Joseph Gerson Since the first reviews of the  Oppenheimer film appeared, a question has been floating in the ether: Why don’t we see substantial images of the destruction and victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bombs? Days before the Academy Awards, I had the opportunity to learn the answers to that question. I  had … Read more