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One morning in Hiroshima, I watched as hundreds of Japanese schoolchildren -- a newly minted generation in their navy-and-white uniforms -- poured out of the Peace Memorial Museum. The Japanese authorities take children there every day, busload after busload, to see the evidence: the photographs taken on Aug. 6, 1945...
While the U.S. or Russia could make a miniaturized bomb with as little as 6 lbs. of bomb-grade plutonium-239, a beginner could hope to produce only a much larger, cruder device from his 18 lbs. The fissionable metal for a bomb core has to be melted down and...
Looking for freedom and food, the Cuban refugees who hauled themselves desperately onto Floridian shores last week told wild, hungry stories of how fellow countrymen tried to take advantage of the food shortage. They talked of condoms melted on top of pizzas and sold to the unsuspecting; of rag mops...
In the view of one psychiatric expert, Holly Ramona exhibited the telltale symptoms of sexual abuse. She dreamed repeatedly of a snake crawling up her vagina, refused gynecological examinations, and feared men with pointy canine teeth -- the kind of teeth that reminded her of her father, whom she had accused...
It wasn't just the beauty of the sight but the contrast form what had gone before that struck me. Somehow, Widener seemed profound, and so different from the mindless hi-I'm-Jacques-from-Podunk freshman blather. I headed toward the Widener steps and began climbing; the buzz of...