Hiroshima

August 8, 2024 | |

G7 Ambassadors Skip Nagasaki Memorial Over Israel Snub

The U.S., UK, German, and Italian ambassadors to Japan will skip Nagasaki’s annual August 9 commemoration of the 1945 atomic bombing due to the city’s exclusion of Israel from...

June 20, 2024 | Cleo Paskal |

Remembering Saipan: The battle that reshaped the Pacific

Nine days after D-Day, on June 15, 1944, the Battle of Saipan erupted on the other side of the world. It was to be as pivotal for the Pacific Theater as D-Day was for the war in Europe. Eighty years...

September 3, 2023 | Cleo Paskal |

Northern Mariana: Time to close China’s backdoor into the U.S.

‘The Northern Marianas economy continues to struggle, and the government remains in deep fiscal distress. These are conditions that make the commonwealth acutely vulnerable to CCP exploitation’.

June 2, 2023 | John Hardie |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: June

Welcome back to the Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines...

May 31, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

The fantasy of multipolarity

It would lead to brave new world order dominated by Chinese Communists

January 23, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

Eyewitness: Volcano, tsunami devastate Tonga, help urgently needed

World Exclusive: ‘One could see the huge smoke column from the volcano shoot straight up from the horizon into the sky, until you couldn’t see it anymore. It’s almost as if it was erupting into space itself.’

May 10, 2018 | Sheryl Saperia |

Full Comment: Iran lied to get a deal that we can’t enforce anyway

Israel has just pulled off a spectacular covert mission to extract from a warehouse in southern Tehran 55,000 pages and 183 CDs of secret Iranian files detailing that country’s nuclear prog...

April 25, 2016 | R. James Woolsey |

The miniaturization myth

Co-written with Peter Vincent Pry On March 9, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, a paranoid psychopath, displayed a nuclear missile warhead he threatens to launch against the Un...

April 12, 2016 | Tony Badran |

Our World: Obama’s nuclear contrition

On Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Hiroshima. While there meeting with this G-7 counterparts, Kerry strongly hinted that his visit was a precursor to a visit to the site of the f...

January 6, 2016 | Claudia Rosett |

North Korea’s Nuclear Advance — With Or Without The Hydrogen Bomb

It’s almost two years since North Korea’s government threatened to carry out “a new form of nuclear test.” Asked at a United Nations press conference what Pyongyang had in...

September 28, 2015 | R. James Woolsey |

Iran Deal’s Premise Is Wrong — They Likely Have a Bomb

Co-written by William R. Graham, Henry Cooper, Fritz Ermarth, Peter Vincent Pry  President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is not just a bad deal. It is the wor...

December 17, 2014 | Clifford D. May

America Needs Its Rough Men

In spring 2009, I was invited to debate “torture” with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” He gave me an opportunity to make a case with which he vehemently disagreed. He did...

November 20, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Ali Khamenei’s Defiant Diatribe

While the Western media continue to speculate on the P5+1 negotiations in Geneva, the Iranian media tuned in to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's ...

August 14, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Iran and African Uranium

By Zachary Elkaim The Zimbabwean government recently issued a denial of a Times of London...

February 14, 2013 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Why Iran Already Has the Bomb

If North Korea has the bomb—as this week’s nuclear test indicated—then for all practical purposes, so does Iran.

September 9, 2011 | |

Reconsidering the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

It’s an ineffectual gesture that could do more harm than good.

July 14, 2011 |

Too Much Mr. Nice Guy

WASHINGTON — There are three ways in which I believe recent decisions by the Obama administration are, unintentionally, actually fostering the proliferation of nuclear weapons rather than c...

February 4, 2010 | |

Flirting With Disaster

Does Barack Obama really want to be the president who let Iran get the nuclear bomb? Outside the White House bubble, signs keep multiplying that this could be the year. Iran continues to...

October 15, 2009 | Clifford D. May

Pakistan Notebook

Islamabad — I picked an interesting moment to visit Pakistan: four terrorist attacks in less than a week. The first was at the World Food Programme office here in the capital: five killed....

May 8, 2009 | Clifford D. May U.S. News and World Report

Should Those Behind Torture Be Prosecuted?

Imagine you are an intelligence officer in 2002, when journalist Daniel Pearl is being held captive by terrorists in Pakistan. You have an al Qaeda leader in custody. He knows who is holding Pear...