Tag: Scott Ritter

78 Years From Hiroshima

Atomic cloud over Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 1945; taken from "Enola Gay" flying over Matsuyama, Shikoku. (Wikimedia)

The film Oppenheimer has reignited discussion of the political and moral circumstances surrounding the U.S. atomic attack 78 years ago today on Hiroshima. Here are 10 articles CN ran on the 75th anniversary exploring the debate over the bomb. 

SCOTT RITTER: The Atomic Executioner’s Lament

While the world focuses on the trials and travails of the scientists who invented the atomic bomb, little attention is paid to the hard positions taken by the nuclear executioners, the men called upon to drop these bombs in time of war.

SCOTT RITTER: NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd

The unfulfilled goals and objectives from last year’s meeting in Madrid loom over the Atlantic military alliance. When the membership meets in Vilnius this week, normalizing failure might best describe the most that can be accomplished. 

Prigozhin’s War

UPDATED: Putin met with Prigozhin five days after the rebellion as analysts differ on why it happened. It is an episode with lessons to be learned for both Russia and the West, writes Joe Lauria.

SCOTT RITTER: ‘We Need Consortium News’

Scott Ritter

“It is absolutely essential that outlets like Consortium News exist,” says Scott Ritter in this video message, adding that “this important project” and its “alternative voices” must be kept alive.