Epstein Secrets

- tanks, airplanes, national wealth - declined or rose as a gradual process. It took years for Genoa to fund and build an expeditionary force to gut Venice’s Adriatic designs. Decades passed as Germany built her naval fleet. But in our age, such slower-moving measures are of limited use. Network systems

how to manage an age when it was, for the first time, possible for humans to destroy the planet was colored still by fresh memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was charged too with the fear of communist expansion, not an unreasonable worry for Americans who had just fought a world war against two other,

ion of military information” was driving political leaders in the United States to adopt a “secretive frame of mind paralleled in history only in the Venice of the Renaissance.” Wiener, echoing many outspoken veterans of the Manhattan Project, argued that the postwar obsession with secrecy—especially arou

roduction of nuclear weapons, he wrote, was whether such bombs could be built. Once that secret had been revealed, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no amount of state-imposed secrecy would stop others from puzzling through chains of reasoning like those the Manhattan Project researchers had foll

ion of military information” was driving political leaders in the United States to adopt a “secretive frame of mind paralleled in history only in the Venice of the Renaissance.” Wiener, echoing many outspoken veterans of the Manhattan Project, argued that the postwar obsession with secrecy—especially arou

roduction of nuclear weapons, he wrote, was whether such bombs could be built. Once that secret had been revealed, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no amount of state-imposed secrecy would stop others from puzzling through chains of reasoning like those the Manhattan Project researchers had foll