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

A “conversation”: J. Robert Oppenheimer's report on nuclear effects and Setsuko Thurlow’s Nobel Peace Prize speech on abolishing nukes

How I and the other 7 billion of us on the planet now can prevent the worst effects of climate change.

I began musing here about growing older with an untested sense of optimism. I have a fresh appreciation for how hard that is.

March 11, 2011: Fukushima nuclear plant systems detected an earthquake. The reactors automatically shut down and emergency diesel...

What’s your image of a millennial? A coffee shop patron with an open laptop, budding professional or struggling freelance artist—each...

2020 reminds me of the extended, dissonant orchestral ascent of Lennon/McCartney’s A Day in the Life.

If we thought the covid-black lives-election trifecta couldn’t get more surreal, we weren’t listening to the climate science warnings

Normally, I see myself from the inside looking out. Until I happen on a mirror—I hardly recognize me from the outside looking in. If it...

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