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Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," The Atlantic, July 1945

As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and »

Daniel Ellsberg, "Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years," Truthdig (August 6, 2009)

It was a hot August day in Detroit. I was standing on a street corner downtown, looking at the front page of The Detroit News in a news rack. I remember a streetcar rattling by on the tracks as I read the headline: A single American bomb had destroyed a Japanese city. My first thought was that I knew exactly what that bomb was. It was the U-235 bomb we had discussed in school and written papers about, the previous fall. I thought: "We got it first. And we used it. On a city." I had a sense of dread, »

Lawrence S. Wittner, "The Ongoing Danger of Nuclear War," Truthout August 5, 2009

This August, when hundreds of Hiroshima Day vigils and related antinuclear activities occur around the United States, many Americans will wonder at their relevance. After all, the nuclear danger that characterized the Cold War is now far behind us, isn't it? Unfortunately, it is not. Today there are nine nuclear-armed nations, with over 23,000 nuclear weapons in their arsenals. Thousands of these weapons are on hairtrigger alert. Admittedly, some nations are decreasing the size of their nuclear arsenals. The United States and Russia - which together possess about 95 percent of the world's nuclear weapons - plan to sign »

Howard Zinn, "Letter to the Editor regarding Samantha Power's book review," New York Times (August 19, 2007)

To the Editor: Samantha Power has done extraordinary work in chronicling the genocides of our time, and in exposing how the Western powers were complicit by their inaction. However, in her review of four books on terrorism, especially Talal Asad’s “On Suicide Bombing” (July 29), she claims a moral distinction between “inadvertent” killing of civilians in bombings and “deliberate” targeting of civilians in suicide attacks. Her position is not only illogical, but (against her intention, I believe) makes it easier to justify such bombings. She believes that “there is a moral difference between setting out to destroy as many civilians »

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