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...Iran and the Bomb In his essay "Today Tehran, Tomorrow the World" [April 3], Charles Krauthammer stereotyped Iranians as followers of an "extreme and fanatical ideology" who would wield nuclear power recklessly. He argues that while good sense has kept other rogue nations from using the atom bomb, Iran, "undeterred by the usual calculations of prudence and self-preservation," cannot be trusted to respond that way. But Iranians are not suicidal. They know that they could be wiped out in a retaliatory attack. And Krauthammer neglected to mention that only the U.S. has used the Bomb. The real problem...
...There are plenty of texts dealing with the West's perception of Japan, but the Shomei Tomatsu retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (sfmoma.org), from May 13 to Aug. 13, gives Western audiences a chance to discover how the Japanese see themselves. The atom bomb, Americanization, urbanization and the postwar rebuilding of Japan all figure prominently in Skin of the Nation, which collects some of the 76-year-old master's most famous images from the 1950s to the present. Among them is the haunting Bottle Melted and Deformed by Atomic Bomb Heat, Radiation, and Fire, Nagasaki...
...goodies of modern life. But then the West points an accusing finger at us for doing just what it wants us to do. A little deeper thinking would show that unrestricted consumerism and sustainable development cannot go hand in hand. Mukut Behari Lal New Delhi Iran and the Bomb Charles Krauthammer took a clear look at the mind of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [April 3], who has stated that Israel should be wiped off the map. Was that declaration empty rhetoric or a sincere vow? For the sake of the world, I pray that Ahmadinejad's words are just words...
There are plenty of texts dealing with the West's perception of Japan, but the Shomei Tomatsu retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art sfmoma.org, from May 13 to Aug. 13, gives Western audiences a chance to discover how the Japanese see themselves. The atom bomb, Americanization, urbanization and the postwar rebuilding of Japan all figure prominently in Skin of the Nation, which collects some of the 76-year-old master's most famous images from the 1950s to the present. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade...
...Take biologist Paul Ehrlich’s popular Malthusian broadside, “The Population Bomb.” Farsighted Ehrlich predicted that a “population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” causing world-wide famine and the death of “hundreds of millions of people” annually from starvation. Oops—in the subsequent 35 years, increased agricultural productivity exceeded population growth and the total amount of cultivated land barely increased...