AUGUST 15, 1945 JAPAN HESITATES By August 1945, America was poised to achieve total victory in World War II. As described in my article Downfall, the August 6, 1945, atomic attack on Hiroshima made it clear. The Potsdam Declaration was no bluff. American broadcasts and leaflets announced the nuclear catastrophe and existence of the atomic … Read more
AUGUST 6, 1945 EXCEPTIONAL DEVELOPMENT On August 6, 1945, America effectively ended World War II by triggering the downfall of Imperial Japan. My previous post, Trinity, described how, through the unprecedented project code-named Manhattan, the United States had harnessed nuclear energy. Secondly, we successfully tested the first atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, … Read more
AMERICA GOES NUCLEAR At 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear weapon, an atomic device code named Trinity, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about thirty-five miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on the Army Air Forces’ Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range. Scientists and military personnel … Read more
President Donald Trump and his energetic Paladin Elon Musk have set in motion a reorganization that should not result in the dismemberment of the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia and Radio Liberty. Many valid financial and philosophical reforms to agencies under the aegis of the U. S. Agency for Global Media … Read more
THE REAL AMERICA November 2024 marks the 404th anniversary of the arrival in 1620 by the Mayflower and the Pilgrims at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. Firstly, this was the beginning of America Ascendant. Their experiment became the independent and progressive United States of America. Their blessed land is truly the land of the free and home … Read more
CRITICAL MOMENT In his 1960 Inaugural Address, President John F. Kennedy emphasized the moment had come for America to pass the torch to a new generation of leadership. The younger generation that had fought World War II would succeed the Americans who had led the war effort and establishment of the postwar Pax-Americana world order. … Read more
BRILLIANT DIPLOMAT The recent passing of Henry Kissinger (1923-2023) reminds us that America’s arguably most brilliant modern diplomatic mind provoked as much criticism as praise. Genius or villain, Henry Kissinger well understood and eclipsed both support and opposition. In other words, he transcended the traditional American foreign policy debate between multilateral, unilateral and isolationist impulses. … Read more
ENABLING ISRAEL’S EXTERMINATION “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” is now the favorite chant of university students in America. Likewise, of youth worldwide across social media led by China’s Tik Tok. Moreover, as proclaimed by Jihadi radicals including Hamas, the slogan clearly advocates the extermination of Israel. Furthermore, leftist members of … Read more
ISRAEL AT WAR Following the deadly surprise attack by Hamas on October 7, Israel is at war. President Joseph Biden has equivocated by simultaneously asserting absolute support for Israel but advocating for a restrained response. Although he has reassured frightened Israelis, Biden is mindful of the danger of an expanding confrontation. Moreover, during his October … Read more
SALT OF THE EARTH Laid to rest on January 5, 2023, the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI cannot be allowed to simply pass into history, because his legacy is compelling, if complicated. In 2013, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Munich became the first pope to resign in almost 600 years. To be sure, the reticent Benedict, … Read more