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Haunted by his father's role in Vietnam, he turned to farming to grow a new legacy
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWalnut farmer Craig McNamara in his barn in Winters, Calif. His father, Robert McNamara, secretary...
What Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' can teach us today
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 month agoBarbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August” was released in January 1962. Historian Robert Massie, in the...
Opinion: What would George Washington do? He would have audacity to end nuclear weapons
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoOur first president in his farewell address warned us about three things: debt, political parties...
‘Diplomats at War’ Review: Going Rogue at the Embassy
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoBOOKSHELF Few events of the Vietnam War are more contentious than the Kennedy administration’s role...
Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower and Ceaseless Anti-War Activist, Dead at 92
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDaniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst-turned-whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers and...
‘Dr. Strangelove’ Was a Nightmare Comedy. Time Forgot the Nightmare Part
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOn Jan. 29, 1964, a triple premiere — in New York, London and Toronto — launched one of Stanley...
Take a look inside the US' Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a Cold War-era crewed spy satellite that...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe US program sought high-resolution imagery of foreign adversaries in the 1960s, while operating...
Daniel Ellsberg, former defense analyst who released top-secret Pentagon Papers, dies at 92
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDaniel Ellsberg, one of America's most famous whistleblowers, leaked copies of the Pentagon Papers,...
The three filmmakers who saved the world
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoForty years later, we catch up with the directors of "The Day After," "Testament" and "Threads," films that shocked viewers and changed the minds of...