Thomas A. Bass

Thomas A. Bass is the author of three books on Vietnam, including The Spy Who Loved Us, which was cited by the Overseas Press Club and featured in The New Yorker. His eighth book, Return to Fukushima, on life in nuclear exclusion zones, has recently been published.

Netflix Goes to Vietnam

When a filmmaker wanted to understand the war that changed his father, he decided to make a documentary

By Thomas A. Bass | Monday December 1, 2025

Notes From the Front

Henry Kissinger’s Vietnam diary shows that he knew the war was lost a decade before it ended

By Thomas A. Bass | Monday December 4, 2023

The Bomb Next Door

Eighty years into the atomic age, U.S. nuclear power reactors have produced several million tons of radioactive waste—and we still have no idea how to dispose of it

By Thomas A. Bass | Wednesday June 1, 2022

Our Post-Privacy World

Total information awareness may make us feel safe, but will we regret living in a surveillance state?

By Thomas A. Bass | Tuesday September 1, 2020

Netflix Goes to Vietnam

By Thomas A. Bass | Monday December 1, 2025

Notes From the Front

By Thomas A. Bass | Monday December 4, 2023

The Bomb Next Door

By Thomas A. Bass | Wednesday June 1, 2022

Our Post-Privacy World

By Thomas A. Bass | Tuesday September 1, 2020

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