Cold War

Impatiently awaiting Congressional approval of his Space Force, Donald Trump this week reestablished the Cold War-era U.S. Space Command. Founded in 1985 to provide joint command and control of the Air Force, Army, and Navy’s space forces, SpaceCom has been …

Its not quite the Space Force that Donald Trump really wants, but he just established the U.S. Space Command (aka SpaceCom) in another small step toward getting the U.S. ready for battles in space. At a ceremony in the Rose Garden Thursday afternoon, Presid…

Kip Thorne accepts the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 for his decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. (PHOTO) © NOBEL MEDIA AB Nobel laureate and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne counts his decades-long collab…

She praises Prescotts work ethic and devotion to the craft. But also, frankly, I think shes going to earn out her advance. Shes not going to be somebody who sold her book for a ton of money and then is going to be a commercial failure and wreck the rest…

At the funeral for 14 Russian sailors, Captain Sergei Pavlov hailed the blameless heroes for dousing the fire that broke out on their nuclear spy submarine, called the Losharik, during a secret mission last month. At the cost of their lives, Pavlov said, t…

How do you sell a government program that spends tens of millions of dollars on research and development for space travel? While the average taxpayer may love the idea of braving new frontiers, far fewer are apt to vote for funding scientific research, the sp…

The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Yet that's not possible, because there is no longer any difference between those categories of devices. Co…

In the wake of the second world war, Russia and the West feared the domino effect of enfeebled countries like Albania falling into the clutches of imperialist capitalism or communism. Each side deployed literature as a frontline force in their struggle. – The…

As long as the United States has had nuclear weapons, its wanted to nuke things. The list has includedbut is not limited tocities, beer bottles, salt mines, hurricanes, the moon. Yesterday, Axios reported that President Trump suggested using a nuke to stop a …

Sunday night, Axioss Jonathan Swan broke news that Donald Trumpamong his many often random musingsappears to have considered one of the worst-but-most-persistent ideas in public policy: Nuking hurricanes. The idea has evidently surfaced multiple times in the…