"fears that a cloud of Soviet bombers could appear at any time, armed with nuclear bombs "This assertion needs a reference. The word I find particularly dubious is "cloud" implying MANY. The Soviets had only conducted a single…Mar 161Mar 161
Unprovoked or unanticipated?[I drafted this piece one and half years ago. Something must have distracted me from publishing it. It seems tragically relevant still.]Mar 141Mar 141
The diagram is intentionally misleading.Of course this is not the precise answer you have challenge us to find, but it's better than nothng!Mar 11Mar 11
De Gaulle's argument is faulty.Indeed, the ONLY credible nuclear threat is retaliation-in-kind; first-use threats lack credibility as we now see (or ought to see) with…Mar 7Mar 7
Fact: all swans are white.Well, no, the swans in Australia are black (and just as beautiful).Mar 7Mar 7
If you like this article, I think you will enjoy this short piece of mine:https://medium.com/@aaron-tovish/free-the-dolphins-and-octopi-5466fa48d4f5Mar 7Mar 7
This piece of mine might shed some light on this subject:https://medium.com/@aaron-tovish/does-patriarchy-have-an-evolutionary-edge-over-matriarch-385826789196Mar 71Mar 71
In my twenties, while living in LA half a century ago, I was part of a collective called "The…Joining the world's 600,000 natural islands, 10,000 such "pelagic islands" each with 10,000 inhabitants would accommodate 100,000,000…Feb 28Feb 28