I knew the fear-begotten arms race and I grew up together. Now all these years later, my father is holding an exploding bombshell out to me.

Published in Ground Zero, October 2021. “We keep threatening to unleash these bombs... Most of us have forgotten what we're capable of."

Memorializing the words of Taeko Teramae, age 15 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was 0.5 km from the hypocenter.

My mom used to say that your job as a mother, from the time your child is five, is to prepare them to leave home. I always thought that...