Much of the public subconsciously feels that it’s in debt to its leaders for not only defending it, but assuming responsibility for killing in war.
Mass Killing: a Higher Calling?
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World War II
UN Origins Project Series, Part 4: In WWII, It Took Teamwork to Defeat Not Only Germany, But Japan
The Philippines, Australia, and even China helped the United States defeat imperial Japan in World War II.
Treatment of Russian POWs in WWII Paved the Way for Holocaust
“The existing concentration camps changed their character upon contact with prisoners of war,” writes Timothy Snyder in Bloodlands.
The Warsaw Ghetto: Dry Run for a Death Camp
An attempt by the Nazis to make a propaganda film about how Jews were responsible for conditions in the Warsaw ghetto never got off the ground.
Review: America, Hitler, and the UN
According to convention, the United Nations began with the signing of the UN charter in San Francisco in 1945. From that beginning, the organization evolved into a global deliberative body of nearly 200 member states. For some, the UN is incapable of managing an anarchic international system. For others, the UN represents an attempt by the major powers following World War II to maintain or expand their empires by dressing them in the guise of an international democratic order.
One of Hiroshima’s Objectives: To Prove the Manhattan Project Wasn’t a Money Pit
Ostensibly the atomic bomb was intended to shorten World War II, but U.S. war planners were actually afraid the war would end before they had a chance to deploy it.
Beneath Shortening the War and Shocking the Soviet Union Lay Another Reason for Hiroshima
Unpeeling the layers of the onion of reasons why the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Sabotaged Prospects for a True Post-War Peace
Along with civilians, indiscriminate targeting eliminates hopes for a secure world.
As Egypt Protesters Look to U.S. in Vain, Remembering Another Lost Opportunity
U.S. support for an authoritarian regime is by no means a new phenomenon nor is it peculiar to the Middle East.
Review: ‘The Bomb’
Howard Zinn died recently at the age of 87. His last book, The Bomb, is about his experience as a bombardier in World War II, and about the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is also the story of his hatred of war and of how he came to confront its stupidity and criminality throughout his life, in the South fighting for civil rights and wherever justice was denied.