In the course of the meeting the two leaders discussed what terms of surrender they would eventually insist upon; the word unconditional was discussed but not included in the official joint statement...
In 1920 the Horthy regime introduced a numerus clausus law restricting university admission which required that the comparative numbers of the entrants correspond as nearly as possible to the relative...
Destroyed, that is, were not only men, women and thousands of children but also restaurants and inns, laundries, theater groups, sports clubs, sewing clubs, boys’ clubs, girls’ clubs, love affairs, tr...
A page a day is a book a year. Listen to that again: a page a day is a book a year.
There are not many horrors as efficient for the generation of deep anger and terrible lifelong insecurity as the inability of a father to protect his child.
Products. The Global Positioning System (GPS) uses spread spectrum. So does the U.S. military’s $41 billion MILSATCOM satellite communications network. Wireless local area networks (wLANs) use spread...
Mid-June 1915, the wind was favourable and we discharged a very poisonous gas, a mixture of chlorine and phosgene, against the [Russian] enemy lines. . . .344 Not a single shot was fired. . . . The at...
Informal system of mastery and apprenticeship over which was laid the more recent system of the European graduate school.
An excessive and unproductive deference of British physics students to their seniors. He therefore founded a club, the
What decided him (almost invariably) was a college project in which he had occasion to do some independent research—to find out things for himself. Once he discovered the pleasures of this kind of wor...
Thus in the first months of 1940 it was already clear to two intelligent observers that nuclear weapons would be weapons of mass destruction against which the only apparent defense would be the deterr...
This just goes to show that if you want to succeed in this world you don’t have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier.
The word meltdown had not yet entered the reactor engineer’s vocabulary—Fermi was only then inventing that specialty—but that is what Compton was risking, a small Chernobyl in the midst of a crowded c...
The concoction of the Protocols was probably the work of the head of the czarist secret police outside Russia, a Paris-based agent named Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky. Borrowing and paraphrasing Machiave...
The Strategic Bombing Survey estimates that probably more persons lost their lives by fire at Tokyo in a 6-hour period than at any [equivalent period of] time in the history of man. The fire storm at...
Roosevelt had returned from Hyde Park troubled that Felix Frankfurter and Bohr had somehow breached Manhattan Project security, Bush and perhaps Conant had talked to Bohr and the two administrators ha...
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, supposedly a transcription of a secret Jewish council’s plans to subvert legitimate governments and take over the world, were sold internationally in the 1920s and 193...
Once violence is understood to be a behavior, not a pathology, the fact that it was responsive to social pressures no longer seems mysterious.
Man-made death became epidemic in the twentieth century because increasingly efficient killing technologies made the extreme exercise of national sovereignty pathological.
Less obviously, the resurgence of capital punishment in modern America exposes the insecurity of U.S. authorities with the increase in violent crime, which challenges government monopoly of violence.