Nuclear weapons

How to Start a Nuclear War

By Andrew Cockburn,

Serving as a US Air Force launch control officer for intercontinental missiles in the early Seventies, First Lieutenant Bruce Blair figured out how to start a nuclear war and kill…

Destroyer of Worlds

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

In February 1947, Harper’s Magazine published Henry L. Stimson’s “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.” As secretary of war, Stimson had served as the chief military adviser to President…

Haleiwa, Hawaii

By Paul Theroux,

When people in Hawaii first learned of North Korea’s latest threat — that it might soon launch a preemptive strike that could obliterate our lovely islands with a nuclear bomb…

The New Red Scare

By Andrew Cockburn,

“Welcome to the world of strategic analysis,” Ivan Selin used to tell his team during the Sixties, “where we program weapons that don’t work to meet threats that don’t exist.”…

Fifty Years Under a Cloud

By Tom Engelhardt, on May 27, 2016

Barack Obama visits Hiroshima; Tom Engelhardt searches for our atomic history Read More

Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

By Andrew Cockburn, on May 6, 2014

Gareth Porter on the true history of Iran’s nuclear program Read More

Changing Partners

By Peter Oborne, David Morrison,

Ever since the United States emerged as an imperial power at the end of World War II, it has needed at least one enemy, preferably more. For many years, the…

The Mad Mullah Myth

By Flynt Lawrence Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett,

In the more than thirty years since the Iranian Revolution, Western analysts have routinely depicted the Islamic Republic as an ideologically driven, illegitimate, and deeply unstable state. From their perspective,…

Buried suns

By David Samuels,

Buried truth

By Benjamin Phelan,

Broken arrow

By Harper’s Staff,

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