The crisis was compounded when back-up generators required for emergency cooling failed.
Japan Faces Possible Three-Mile Island
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Asia & Pacific
Hatoyama’s Confession
Nine months after stepping down as Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama conceded that he had just given “deterrence” as the factor necessitating retention of the US Marine Corps on Okinawa because he needed a pretext.
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.
By Enabling India’s Nuke Program U.S. Shares Blame for Pakistan’s
By enabling India to have its nuclear cake and eat it too — enough nuclear fuel for weapons as well as energy — the U.S. also fuels Pakistan’s nuclear-weapons expansion.
What the Army Thinks the Taliban Would Do With Data on Genitourinary Injuries
The U.S. army doesn’t put some of the dirtiest fighting ever past the Taliban.
Contested Waters – Contested Texts: Storm over Korea’s West Sea
This is the story of a text, which was briefly posted at The Asia Pacific Journal on 6 February, and almost immediately (within hours) withdrawn. The author was Kim Man-bok, who from November 2006 to January 2008 was Director of the South Korean National Intelligence Service (Korean CIA) under the Government of President Roh Moo-hyun. His text was entitled “Let Us Turn Korea’s West Sea (the Sea of Dispute) into a Sea of Peace and Prosperity.”
True Reason for China’s Appeal to American Industry Even More Shameful Than Low Wages
The real story of why American industry moves to China may never be told in the mainstream media.
One Creature That Deserves Extinction: the V-22 Osprey
Okinawans are at the vanguard of attempts to block the deployment of a controversial U.S. aircraft.
Nonviolence Guru Gene Sharp Gets His Due
Despite pointing the way to nonviolent revolution, Gene Sharp was once viciously attacked by the left.