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Alex Wellerstein's The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age challenges standard preconceptions of President Harry Truman's role in using nuclear weapons. It goes on to trace Truman's role in developing policy around nuclear weapons, including civilian control and...

Obeying in Advance

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Not good. Three speaker events across three UK departments underwent title changes, including omitting gender, wealth and race-related wording. Some faculty members said they received edited event titles, but were.

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Elvis Presley funeral hearse procession It won't hurt when I fall down from this barstool (location: O'Hare International Airport), so for once I want to post something completely positive, that doesn't talk about that, or that other thing, or especially you know who. So I was...
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Petty tyranny

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A defining feature of the Trump crew is that they're not just dangerously authoritarian, they're pathetic: The Pentagon is moving to demote Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired captain in the U.S. Navy, over his participation in a video calling on troops to resist illegal orders. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday...
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