The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
When I first saw the title of Michael Lewis’s 2018 book, The Fifth Risk, my associative circuitry immediately connected …
Category Archives: Weapons
The Damned Days of August: 6th and 9th
Today is August 6, 73 years after the first use of a nuclear explosion in a war in human …
Black Rain, Two Movies — Hiroshima After the Bomb
The enormous, instantaneous destructive power of atomic weapons is the first, and sometimes the only, image that comes to mind …
On War with Gwynne Dyer
On War with Gwynne Dyer is a seven episode television series done in 1983 under the auspices of the Canadian …
Mainlining Movies
October brings the Mill Valley Film Festival to town. Several towns, in fact. And theaters enough to show 170 movies or …
Ethics for Wars to Come
Samuel G Freedman in his always interesting once-a-week column On Region in the New York Times, features Robert H Latiff, …
August 9, 68 Years Later
More at BBC and The Guardian
Laotian Women Dig for US ‘Bombies’ — Still
A friend who has been following my recent trip to Southeast Asia, including a report from the COPE facility in Vientiane, Laos …
Waiting for the Bullets to Fly
Something is completely fubared here. Lucinda Roy, a long-time member of the English faculty at Virginia Tech had Cho as …