Bombardment Archives

Bombardment

Harm Offensive

From leaflets distributed in Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces between October 13 and November 16, 2023. As of this writing, the United Nations estimates that more than 60 percent…

Like Other People

by Hammam Alloh,

From an account by Dr. Hammam Alloh that was told to Maya Rosen and published by Jewish Currents on October 30, 2023. Alloh was killed by an Israeli airstrike in…

We Were the News Today

by Maram Humaid,

From journal entries by Maram Humaid, an AlJazeera.com journalist in Gaza, written during the first week of the Israel–Hamas war. OCTOBER 9 I’m the mother of two children, one of…

Terms of Surrender

by Henry Lewis Stimson,

It was in the fall of 1941 that the question of atomic energy was first brought directly to my attention. At that time President Roosevelt appointed a committee to advise…

Destroyer of Worlds

by Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

Taking stock of our nuclear present

Fifty Years Under a Cloud

by Tom Engelhardt,

The uneasy search for our atomic history

Warthogs and All

by Andrew Cockburn,

The U.S. Air Force’s foolish plan to scrap its most effective plane

Untitled

by Andrew McConnell,

Mustn’t grumble

by Harper’s Staff,

11. The National Character

by Earl Shorris,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” The undoing of the American character has a long history. It took more than half a century from a summer’s day in August, when the…

Death comes flying

by Sven Lindqvist,Translated by Linda Haverty Rugg,