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In New Mexico, Trinity Test site neighbors weren’t warned or evacuated before the U.S. government detonated the atomic bomb in 1945. The light was so bright it could be seen hundreds of miles away. Nearly half a million people resided within a 150-mile radius of the blast. Witnesses said ash rained down for days.
Former staff editor Emily Greene Balch's 1946 Peace Prize win “recognized how much private citizens can contribute to the conditions for international peace.” Peace Prize laureates published in the The Nation include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Sir Norman Angell, Elie Wiesel, Willy Brandt, Mikhail Gorbachev, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
From space odysseys to star wars, alien invaders to guardians of the galaxy — the best science films since the genre first took a trip to the moon.
The year’s best films still offer power and poignancy. And even in movies where God seems absent, we can still find things that point to Him.
The man known for popularizing the phrase, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog,” couldn’t stand having one himself.