Richard Dolan at the Secret Space Program Conference, 2014 San Mateo - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buNCOlB-HeMRead more... )

http://news.discovery.com/space/satellites-cold-war-hacking-china.html

Space has long been a battleground for disputes between the United States and its rivals, but news this week that the Chinese military may have been behind a hacking attack on ( Read more... )

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http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,235814,00.html

Early on the morning of September 11, 2001 I was lecturing a group of Naval Academy midshipmen on the fact that life in the fleet is much more uncertain than life at Annapolis. I used one of my sea stories ( Read more... )

If anyone out there has information on resources that can help me research some odd aspects of the period 1930-1960 in Southern California, I would really appreciate it if you would leave that information in comments to this post. The information I'm looking for concerns a subculture of mostly upper-middle-class and some upper-class individuals ( Read more... )

http://www.damninteresting.com/in-soviet-russia-lake-contaminates-you

An interesting historical tidbit. One especially timely now.

http://www.universetoday.com/81643/solving-the-mystery-of-dark-gamma-ray-bursts/

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http://www.damninteresting.com/in-soviet-russia-lake-contaminates-you,

http://www.amazon.com/Red-November-Inside-U-S-Soviet-Submarine/dp/0061806765

Saw this review elsewhere. Thought some of you might want to check it out.In October 1962, the Soviet Union came close to firing nuclear-tipped torpedoes during a ( Read more... )