Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books and director of three films for PBS since 2021. He first wrote about the evils of Kissinger for Crawdaddy more than a half century...
When Shady Groves Mocked Radiation Effects
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. I have noted previously here that Manhattan Project director Gen. Leslie R. Groves – depicted by Matt Damon in “Oppenheimer” as a tough cookie but smart, and basically...
Hiroshima Photo Archives Finally Getting UNESCO Attention
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. It’s taken nearly eight decades since J. Robert Oppenheimer’s “deadly toy” (as per Sting) was sent on its first mission, but the Japanese government decided Tuesday to...
As Oppenheimer Returns… New Warnings About Nuclear Dangers Today
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Oppenheimer finally arrives as a streamer (and for purchase with extras) tomorrow, see my post here that previewed the bonus material. You still won’t see any Japanese...
The ‘Unfathomable Risks’ of the New US Nuclear Build-up
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Just a quick, vital, scary, news flash, thanks to the new special issue, “The New Nuclear Age,” from venerable Scientific American, dated December 1 but just posted...
Robert Jay Lifton On Nuclearism and Oppenheimerism
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. I was pleased on Sunday to find The New Yorker online posting at the top of its site a massive Q & A that finds Masha Gesssen interviewing one of my longtime...
Atomic Cover-up Arrives from PBS
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. I revealed that this was in the works awhile back, but now happy to report that my recent award-winning film “Atomic Cover-up” has just been launched by PBS via their...
61 Years Ago Today: JFK Prepares Cuban Crisis Speech — And Discovers Loose Control of Our Own Nukes
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Continuing a series begun earlier this week, as we look back 61 years this week to the gravest nuclear crisis of our era, involving JFK, Castro, and Soviet missiles in...
JFK vs. Curtis LeMay: Nuclear Terror During Cuban Missile Crisis
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Part II of Our Look Back at Nuclear Terror During Cuban Missile Crisis Continuing a series begun earlier this week, as we look back 61 years this week to the beginnings...
Oppenheimer Starts Streaming (and ‘Extras’ Arrive) in November
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Even while still doing good business in theaters, Barbie, one half of “Barbenheimer,” started streaming several weeks ago. Now we learn that Christopher Nolan’s...
