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America won the Internet.
J. Christopher Giancarlo, Cameron Winklevoss, • CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money
This was clearly a period of history that tolerated a certain lack of urgency.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
the real front lines of nuclear confrontation were the overseas bases and territories. Hundreds of nuclear weapons, we now know, were placed in South Korea, the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Throughout most of the sixties, there were more than a thousand on Okinawa. Johnston Island, one of the guano islands Ernest Gruening had recolonized, br
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The Radio Operator: Robert Ford’s Last Stand in the Fight to Save Tibet (Kindle Single)
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On the Trail of Blackbody Radiation: Max Planck and the Physics of his Era
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Seven days later Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, giving legal sanction to the internment, in typically desperate conditions, of American citizens. It was a decision of a nation in panic, of a government that had lost its bearings, of
Jon Meacham • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
