Sublime

In November 1943, Rear Admiral John Hall took command of the 11th Amphibious Force and assumed the responsibility for depositing the Army’s Fifth Corps on the landing site designated as Omaha Beach—nothing less than the most important operation in American history.

David Keith, a professor of applied physics at Harvard, has been described as “perhaps the foremost proponent of geoengineering,” a characterization that he bristles at. “I’m a proponent of reality,” he wrote in a letter to the editor of The New York Times in 2015. Keith founded the university’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program in 2017, and he

On November 24, the day the battle for Tarawa ended, Turner’s staff forwarded a training syllabus to Lieutenant Thomas Crist, the commanding officer of the coral-blasting Seabee unit back in Hawaii, calling for the creation of two provisional units capable of dealing with underwater obstacles—something called the “underwater demolition teams,” or

with an electrical wire and the experiment succeeded. When he repeated the experiment in the open sea near Caesarea, waves shocked the boat and it sank. Yohai Ben-Nun was not discouraged and asked him whether he could design a “remote-controlled naval missile” with a range of 1,800 meters. Sharon agreed and set out to design a missile, which he