White House Chronicle 7019: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor

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May 5th 2015: Author James M. Scott on Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor

Is Rubio Starting a Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East?

The Trump administration has announced and appears to be crowing over an agreement with Saudi Arabia to help the kingdom not only to build nuclear power plants but also to enrich the uranium fuel. There is no reason for the Saudis to enrich uranium. There are plenty of willing suppliers of enriched uranium and more […]

Soft Power, the Secret Sauce of the British Empire

Llewellyn King

When President Trump, on the first day of his second term, closed the U.S. Agency for International Development and began dismantling the Voice of America, he also severely curtailed what had been America’s soft power dominance in the world. With those actions, we abandoned something of inestimable value: the ability to project Americanism, our ideals. […]

A British Immigrant’s Defense of Immigration

Llewellyn King

Migration, people moving to new lands, is as old as human history, and as fraught. Today it is a global problem complete with layered hypocrisy, cruelty and, always, hope among those on the move. War and extreme poverty collude in driving people to seek a livable future. There is no simple solution, no slogan that […]

The Birth of a New Reactor: Thorium Past and Present

Llewellyn King

If you are designing a car from scratch, there are certain essentials to begin with. You need to start with the wheels on the corners, for example. But when it comes to building a nuclear reactor, things are different. There are hundreds and maybe thousands of ways of doing it. The constant is that you […]