When you think about nuclear weapons, what is the first thought that comes to your mind? Â Destructiveness? Maybe, death? For me at least, power, danger, and control are probably the first three words I associate with nuclear w...
In the waning days of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered his strategists to develop a plan for a surprise attack against USSR forces in occupied Germany. Appropriately named “Operation Unthinkableâ...
With the ongoing US drone campaigns in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, it seems like many people have specifically labeled drones agents of wanton death and destruction. The more informed individual might label drones as tools of...
Global climate change is an issue which has haunted much of the industrialised world for the last decade. Almost all scientists, politicians, and people in general acknowledge industrialised nations’ culpability for the d...
North Korea is famous for several things, among them: eccentric totalitarian dictators, mass starvation, and the rejection of traditionally held international principles. This story fits in with all of these traditional themes...
Last night the US government barely avoided breaching the US debt ceiling, which would have left the US Treasury unable to pay their bills within the next few days. This could have been disastrous for the recovering global econ...
The Gilded Age was one of the darkest periods in history for the common industrial worker. Extreme wealth in the hands of a few, a lack of industrial regulation, and ruthless laissez faire markets all conspired to oppress an en...
So here’s a question, how should poachers (those who kill endangered species for a living or extra income) be treated when found by authorities? Should they be thrown in prison? Fined? Scourged then sentenced to forced labor?...
How do you get an ambulance to someone in need on dirt roads in the middle of Africa? Well, a Zambulance. Most people never consider the incredible logistics behind the ambulance system in the industrialized world, or just take...