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Evil Gap
Evil Gap by Tom H. Hastings 671 words In the 1950s we were warned that the Soviet Union had so many more strategic bombers than we did it was a “bomber gap.” So Congress voted a huge increase in the bomber budget for the war contractors to build more bombers for the Air Force. But
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Jenin, Israel, America
Jenin, Israel, America by Russell Vandenbroucke 710 words This year’s celebrations of American independence straddled Israel’s most intense airstrikes on Palestinians in nearly two decades. Amidst Fourth of July parades and picnics, Americans may have barely noticed what happened far away in a region beset by generations of violence. Assuming they noticed at all, Americans might
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Listening to Oppenheimer, Seven Decades Later
Listening to Oppenheimer, Seven Decades Later by Robert C. Koehler 934 words A mere 55 years after his death, the U.S. government has restored J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance, which the Atomic Energy Commission had taken away from him in 1954, declaring him to be not simply a communist but, in all likelihood, a Soviet