Cold War

Do Morals Matter? By Joseph Nye. Oxford University Press; 268 pages; $24.95 and £18.99.The Abandonment of the West. By Michael Kimmage.Basic Books; 368 pages; $32 and £25.The Age of Illusions. By Andrew Bacevich.Metropolitan Books; 239 pages; $27.THE UNITED STATES, Andrew Bacevich writes near the start of his account of post-cold-war…

The first huge renewable-energy revolution—the one that dotted the US with hydroelectric dams and ultimately made power ubiquitous in every American home—started at a bankruptcy sale. In 1877, Jacob Schoellkopf went to an auction for a waterway owned by the Niagara Falls Canal Company. A succession of entrepreneurs had tried…

The postponement is better than cancellation, but Olympics is not on anyone’s mind now Sport at its best is a glorious indulgence that blends adrenaline rush, exultant joy and mind-numbing grief both for the athlete and the expectant fan. However, in its worst form, sport is war minus the shooting…

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Home News Spaceflight The U.S. Space Force emblem as seen on the payload fairing of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket during launch operations for the AEHF-6 military communications satellite in March 2020. (Image: © United Launch Alliance) WASHINGTON — The more Americans learn about the U.S. Space Force,…

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About a week after President Trump announced on March 18 that he was invoking the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic, the chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the Trump Administration would actually use the law “for the first time”…

Disaster preppers are often thought of as DIY blue-collar folk, steadily stacking cans inside their self-modified underground shipping containers. But Robert Vicino, founder of the Vivos Group, is betting that there are plenty of moneyed families who also believe in impending global doom, are not interested in learning to build…

COVID-19 is the new guy in town, or rather the whole world. It is not even an electronic virus that would devastate computer servers wreaking havoc on social media and financial networks, defence systems and telecommunications. It is a “traditional” virus, which apparently originated in animals and is now spreading…

Lillian Ross in Cold War Hollywood.  In the summer of 1950, Lillian Ross started following the acclaimed director John Huston around Los Angeles as he tried to film Stephen Crane’s Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage. She was on a return trip for The New Yorker to report…