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Normalizing the Killing Fields
Normalizing the Killing Fields by Kathy Kelly 1137 words The Saudis picked us up from the detention center in Daer and put us in a minibus going back to the Yemen border. When they released us, they created a kind of chaos; they screamed at us to “get out of the car and get away.” …
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McCarthyism, from Oppenheimer to today
McCarthyism, from Oppenheimer to today by Rev. Robert Moore 475 words I recently viewed the new Oppenheimer movie and was struck by the horrifying McCarthyism based on unfounded accusations and inuendo that destroyed Dr. Oppenheimer’s reputation. This severely undermined his efforts after World War II to stop the H-bomb and start nuclear arms control regimes
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Oppenheimer’s Truth
Oppenheimer’s Truth by Winslow Myers 854 words After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Oppenheimer saw immediately that any nation with adequate resources would be eventually able to build a weapon, and that something as gargantuan as an H-bomb had no possible military function. It could only be a mechanism for genocide. As he tried to