War and National Security

Letters to the Editor: The Last Days of Bosnia?

  • Ivo Banac
  • Rabia Ali
  • Lawrence Lifschultz

The Last Days of Bosnia?

Historian Ivo Banac, once described as the “political conscience of modern Croatia,” on the roots of conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

  • Ivo Banac
  • Lawrence Lifschultz
  • Rabia Ali

Never Trust Imperialists

What’s really at stake in debates about humanitarian intervention is not human rights, but modern imperialism.

  • Christopher Hitchens

The Possibility of Humanitarian Intervention

Are states moral agents?

  • Noam Chomsky

After the Cold War: The North/South Divide

A roundtable with Randall Forsberg.

  • Randall Forsberg
with responses from
  • Joshua Cohen
  • Eqbal Ahmad
  • Jagat Mehta
  • Alan K. Henrickson

American Intervention in the Third World

Less would be better.

  • Stephen Van Evera

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Homelands

Behind South Africa’s battle lines.

  • Adam Hochschild

The Best-Selling of Vietnam

The distortions of Stanley Karnow’s Vietnam: A History.

  • Noam Chomsky

Embattled Lebanon

For the last ten years, the country has been held hostage by its own people and by regional wars and revolutions.

  • Sherman Teichman

Economics of the Arms Race

  • John Kenneth Galbraith

America First

The United States in the arms race.

  • H. Bruce Franklin

Making Them in Massachusetts

A report on the state’s nuclear weapons industry.

  • Christine L. Kane

The First to Oppose

Atomic scientists against the arms race.

  • Alice Kimball Smith

Images of Apocalypse

The artwork of nuclear survivors.

  • Estelle Jussim

Is There Life After Doomsday?

None of us should rest as long as nuclear weapons are loose in the world.

  • Howard L. Rosenberg

A Writer’s Reflections on the Nuclear Age

The dominant proposition of the atomic age cannot be refuted with any single sweeping show of virtue analogous to the bomb.

  • Shirley Hazzard

The Only Way to Survive

The long-lasting social and psychological effects of the bomb.

  • Robert Jay Lifton

Inside the Death Factory

On women vets of Vietnam.

  • Christine L. Kane
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