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Vijay Prashad reflects on the social wealth being wasted in the name of defending U.S. hegemony.  By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Two important reports were released last month, neither getting the kind of attention they deserve. On April 4, the Intergovernm

radioactive Pearl Harbor. Less than a year after the formal end of World War II the United States tested its new superweapons in peacetime. Operation Crossroads in 1946 at Bikini Atoll tested the effects of nuclear weapons on naval fleets and harbors. While burrowing through the vast Manhattan Project archives historian Alex Wellerstein turned up evidence that Bikini wasn’t the first Pacific island in the atomic crosshairs. Another atoll may have been the earliest target considered by ...

Secret Is Out: The U.S. Military Had a Plan to Nuke the Japanese Navy For a time before the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States considered nuking the Japanese fleet at anchor — a kind of reverse,  radioactive Pearl Harbor. Heres What You Need to Remember: Wartime studies of underwater explosions in support of the plan to nuke Chuuk helped plan Shot Baker, Crossroads’ underwater test. Baker produced what is perhaps the most iconic image of a mushroom cloud, its size ma...

A Radioactive Pearl Harbor? Americas Secret Plan to Nuke Japans Fleet Historian Alex Wellerstein turned up evidence that the United States at one point considered nuking the Japanese fleet at anchor. Less than a year after the formal end of World War II the United States tested its new superweapons in peacetime. Operation Crossroads in 1946 at Bikini Atoll tested the effects of nuclear weapons on naval fleets and harbors. While burrowing through the vast Manhattan Project archives historia...