Nuclear Arms Bros
"I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force or nuclear bombs." Linus Pauling
"I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force or nuclear bombs." Linus Pauling
This story is about the language of nuclear weapons in the international arena.
Doris Kearns Goodwin's new 2024 book An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History (Simon and Schuster) triggered a response in me to write my own personal history of the 1960s. The present essay is wide-ranging, and at time meandering.
Last September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or "medicane." Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn't get hot enough to produce hurricanes more than every few hundred (yes, few hundred!) years. In this case, however, Storm Daniel assaulted Libya with a biblical-style deluge for four straight days[...]
This column presents Section 1, Chapter 3, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022" (from the third printing, 2013). The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "The History," and this Chapter, 3, is entitled "The Real Drug War."