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An Oppenheimer Expert Watches ‘Oppenheimer’
This article containers spoilers for the film Oppenheimer.
Few authors have written as insightfully about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer as Richard Rhodes, whose 1986 book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is widely regarded as the definitive account of the Manhattan Project. Rhodes’s comprehensive history, which won a Pulitzer Prize, is both a massive work of scholarship—the main text alone runs nearly 800 pages—and a literary feat that he conceived as “the tragic epic of the twentieth
A Solution to China is the West’s Biggest Challenge
Defenders of the West have a tendency to gaze wistfully at the past, lamenting how far today’s leaders have fallen. Where America and its allies used to build things, create institutions, and win wars, now they seek only to hold ground, conserve what they have, and escape conflicts.
Such nostalgic longing isn’t hard to understand. Immediately after World War II, Europe was in ruins, its industries and infrastructure destroyed. Without American intervention, much more of Europe could well have
Was mich bei Colin Powell gelehrt hat
Meine Lieblingserinnerung an Colin Powell war der Blick, den er bekam, wenn er amüsiert war. Er neigte seinen Kopf und sah dich unter seiner Brille an, lächelte und freute sich über den Moment. Er hatte eine so große Fähigkeit zur Heiterkeit.
Powell starb heute im Alter von 84 Jahren an den Folgen von COVID-19, teilte seine Familie mit. Leute, die ihn nur wegen seiner politischen Handlungen und seiner Leistungen verurteilen wollen – die Powell-Doktrin geschaffen haben, während er nur ein