Consider this fictitious scenario: In the summer of 1950, President Thomas E. Dewey faced a national security crisis of extraordinary proportions—one that his advisors agreed likely would define his presidency. After beating his Democratic opponent in 1948 by a comfortable…
atomic bomb
Every year on this date I am bewildered (I admit, saddened) that we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration and recall the day the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Japan at Hiroshima. The bombing of Nagasaki followed three days…
