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...there are more portentous matters to consider. This may be a unique moment in transatlantic history. Amid all the broken glass, a window of opportunity stands wide open. Both chastened, Europe and America could be looking at a wondrously creative moment in their turbulent relationship. Gone is the ancient Soviet threat that used to fuse them together; they now confront a whole slew of new threats neither can manage on its own - from terrorism to aids, from creeping protectionism to the collapse of failed states. Why not raise our sights above the headlines and consider a grander bargain? Think about...
...evidence in Britain as in Germany, France and Italy—on the political right, as well as the left. Nazi and fascist characterizations of America barely differ in either tone or content from those of the extreme left. During the Cold War years, the presence of the Soviet threat—perceived a greater evil—muted disdain for America. But once this danger disappeared, old antipathies reemerged with new strength in a Europe that was about to embark on an unprecedented state-building process of a scale and scope unmatched in human history...
...considered the model for Dr. Strangelove, the bomb-loving scientist in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 movie. In the 1980s, Teller backed Ronald Reagan's nukes-based Star Wars program--a technology so complex that many scientists thought it impossible to build. Even so, the mere threat forced the Soviet Union to try designing its own, a costly decision some analysts believe hastened the U.S.S.R.'s collapse. By the time Teller died in Palo Alto, Calif., last week, at 95, he had few friends in the scientific community. Yet he defended to the end his early backing of the bomb. "What...
...when the U.S. deported Qian Xuesen, one of its foremost rocket scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, for being a suspected red. Qian returned to China, helped reverse-engineer a Russian R-2 rocket (an improved version of the infamous German V-2) left behind by Soviet advisers and eventually oversaw the launch of China's first satellite, in 1970. The mission electrified millions of radicals in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, when the satellite broadcast the song The East Is Red back to Earth. Legend has it that technicians pressurized the fuel for those first...
...President Reagan's legacy includes the defeat of the Soviet Union and the enduring optimism he saw in the American people. This was a president who knew if the government would get out of the way of the American people, they will lead the way. To see revisionists of his presidency continue to try to deny his success is laughable. Tax cuts imposed by him led to an unprecedented upsurge of economic growth. If the Congress had gone along with his recommended budgets it would have lasted longer. Steve Hill Louisiana...