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...into defense research, creating powerful new technologies--radar, sonar, the atom bomb. U.S. leaders learned that pure research like atomic and electromagnetic physics, combined with massive government funding, could lead to dramatic breakthroughs in military technology. Because the Soviet Union almost immediately became just as ominous a threat as Nazi Germany had been, Congress created the National Science Foundation in 1950 to fund basic and applied science, mostly at universities, "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense ..." In 1958 it founded NASA in response to renewed fears...
...become a fugitive just 40 hours earlier in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he had entered the Puzzles Lounge and, after confirming that it was a gay bar, shot two men with a handgun and wounded a third with a hatchet. Authorities searched Robida's home and found neo-Nazi pamphlets and other hate literature aimed at racial and ethnic minorities. But the teenager was already speeding away in a green Pontiac, heading south and then west...
With our perfect historical hindsight we can, of course, smirk at poor Mr. Blum’s naiveté. How could he think that you could do business with a Nazi? How could he think he was dealing with a rational actor? Shouldn’t he have realized that he was dealing with evil incarnate? What a fool...
Well, unfortunately for Mr. Blum and the rest of Europe, evil is generally quite talented at hiding itself, or at least contorting itself into something unrecognizable. It is easy to forget that the Nazis did not make their genocidal designs the main basis of their foreign policy. Nazi ministers to England, France, and Russia didn’t say, “Ok, so what we really plan to do is start a Second World War, invade your countries, and systematically kill tens of millions because of their religious and ethnic identity. Oh, and we’re going...
...Some students in Foreign Cultures 76, “Nazi Cinema: Fantasy Production in the Third Reich” were told which readings they should study for Part I of the exam, a short-answer section worth one-third of the exam grade...