The U.S. national debt has exceeded the size of the entire economy, reaching 100.2% of GDP for the first time since the immediate aftermath of World War II. Publicly held debt stood at $31.27 trillion ...
Prologue. Prometheus: beginning of the century -- A forbidden forest: France, 1914-1918 -- Ghosts: Russian 1941-1943 -- Playground: the Nevada Test site, 1951-1963 -- Torn leaf: Vietnam, 1965-1975 -- ...
When Jim Chase, a young naval officers, arrived for duty at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in July 1942, the sight of still visible damage from the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack filled him with anger. “I was ...