part I of III – gendered bombs I read the other day that, in the code of the scientists who developed the atomic bomb, if the bomb was a dud, they were […]
Today, my kids and I visited the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. There, on April 19, 1775, colonial militiamen fired on British soldiers who’d marched from Boston to seize an arsenal of […]
The path to peace may lie in speaking to the Pentagon on its own terms. If you aren’t a Defense Department official, a high-ranking military officer, a top academic, or employed by […]
Part four in a series. The terrible specter of nuclear annihilation was now clear in the American mind, a condition that LIFE acknowledged and addressed. But in the months that followed V-J […]
Part three in a series. In an age and a culture dominated by scientism, the word “sample†tends to invoke the adjectival “representative,†and I cannot begin to imagine culling a meaningful […]
