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Decades Later, the U.S. Government Called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘Nuclear Tests’
By Norman Solomon In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb test explosions, the agency mailed me an official booklet with the title “Announced United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 Through December 1979.” As you’d expect, the Trinity test in New…
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Biden and Cluster Munitions: “In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See”
By Norman Solomon “In a dark time,” poet Theodore Roethke wrote, “the eye begins to see.” Stanley Kunitz observed: “In a murderous time / the heart breaks and breaks / and lives by breaking.” In the current murderous time, amid the dim media swirl, acuity arrived for some with the news that President Biden had…