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Tag Archives: Cold War
Faced with nuclear attack, why not surrender and live to fight another day?
The Deproliferator Conventional thinking holds that deterrence has kept us safe. If, that is, you don’t mind a little brinkmanship like Berlin in 1961 and the Cuban Missile crisis. The history of the Cold War was also sprinkled with accidents such as the 1966 Palomares, Spain crash of a B-52 bearing four hydrogen bombs. Nor […]
From the people who brought you the echo chamber: a call to give back
By J. Pratt Vulpes Imagine a world where children are raised to become agents of change throughout their work and lives, not docile employees, consumers, and followers. One in which corporate personhood has been displaced, and human needs and the environment take precedence over the unlimited quest to maximize profits. A world where every citizen […]
Darth Vader meets Mel Brooks
Our illustrious leadership is haggling over the super-sized bailout like it was the end of the world. My god, do you know how much money we’re talking about? Actually, i do. It’s roughly equal to what the Department of Defense spends every year. And for those kind of duckets we get our ass kicked by […]
Politicians play general, generals play politics (part 5)
In the conclusion of our series on Jeff Huber, columnist at Militar.com and author of a new novel, Bathtub Admirals, we asked him more questions on foreign policy. In a New York Times article, “Look Who’s Tough on Iran Now,” on June 1, William Broad explains that the International Atomic Agency, which had heretofore viewed […]
Politicians play general, generals play politics (part 4)
Our discussion with Military.com columnist Jeff Huber, author of a new novel, Bathtub Admirals, continues. How did you score a column on Military.com? It was easy, to rob an expression from Inspector Clouseau. All I had to do was enlist. Milcom’s editor Ward Carroll and I were contemporaries. Ward was a Tomcat back-seater and no, […]
Politicians play general, generals play politics (part 3)
We engage Military.com columnist Jeff Huber in a wide-ranging discussion that begins with his new novel, Bathtub Admirals. Pitch Bathtub Admirals to prospective readers as if you were trying to interest an agent in representing you. In the background we see the bizarro world version of historic events: the Cold War, the Tailhook scandal and […]
Triumph and tragedy: LIFE and the Space Race
Part five in a series. LIFE’s portrayal of the space race represented, in most respects, a logical extension of its war coverage. Many of the space program’s early goals were military in nature, and as in World War II, technology was once again both demon and messiah, depending on whether it was theirs or ours. […]
Presenting our latest Scrogue: Randall Forsberg, champion of reason and sanity
“Nuclear war must be the most carefully avoided topic of general significance in the contemporary world. . . . almost everyone seems to feel adequately informed by reading one book about nuclear war.” – Paul Brians, chronicler of nuclear culture At one time we ducked the topic out of stark, raving fear. Whether Russia or […]
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