July 2014
In search of strategic stability
... which has passed since the end of the Cold War. The Cold War was a unique period in world history. There was...-East Asia present a wide raft of possibilities for a US-China war of nerves, similar to that which existed between Washington and Moscow...
March 2015
Twinkle, twinkle satellite
... his anxiety over the nuclear standoff as a product of the Cold War, when he sings, “Used to look in on the children at...from his own country. In the absence of grandiose, Cold War-era enemies, filmmakers and artists had increasingly begun to search ...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...total annihilation of the human race in a nuclear Third World War and the threat of the ‘destruction of the human spirit’ ... of the psychological trauma brought on by the Second World War: 50 million people dead, and hundreds of millions of people...
December 2014
Necessity is the mother of invention
...Israel Ministry of Defense (IMoD) in 2005 (even before the Second Lebanon War). In the same year, the IMoD, together with the US Department ... coupled with the pressure created after the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Two years later, the IMoD selected ...
March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
... street. You can’t throw more bandwidth at a satellite internet latency problem and solve it The first Gulf War exemplified what aggressive news organizations could do with satellite technology. Vietnam may have been the first...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
...of the kind enjoyed since the end of the Second World War. To those who have grown up post-WWII such secular ...technological innovation. Then came the Second World War with its associated post-war baby boom and the explosion of technological innovation...
