David Lilienthal

We still have a lot to learn from David Lilienthal’s account of his years running the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The TVA had more than its share of problems: paternalism towards the South, anti-Black racism, and indifference to environmental consequences.

At a pivotal moment in the Cold War, the decision was made that the President would be ultimately responsible for atomic weapons.

What did Truman and Oppenheimer actually say in that room?

Trump did not create this situation, but he has accelerated its centrifugal forces.

On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”