WASHINGTON - Dazzling U.S. precision weapons in the Gulf War 32 years ago encouraged a theory that was dangerous because it was soothing: The era of industrialized wars — those in which the mass manufacturing capacities of the combatant nations would be decisive — had ended. This theory has ...
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren’t depicted in the movie “Oppenheimer,” but they haunt the film — literally.The eponymous physicist and “father of the atom bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer, is plagued by visions of the terrible destruction wrought by the weapon he helped ...
It was in the early 1960s. I was a copy boy at NBC News and the overnight disc jockey for the local radio station called and asked if I’d like to go on a boat ride down the Potomac River with his guest, Tony Bennett.For several hours we cruised past some of Washington’s most famous ...
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren’t depicted in the movie “Oppenheimer,” but they haunt the film — literally.The eponymous physicist and “father of the atom bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer, is plagued by visions of the terrible destruction wrought by the weapon he helped ...
It was in the early 1960s. I was a copy boy at NBC News and the overnight disc jockey for the local radio station called and asked if I’d like to go on a boat ride down the Potomac River with his guest, Tony Bennett.For several hours we cruised past some of Washington’s most famous ...