17 January 2007 – Steeljaw Scribe

Five Minutes to Midnight

BySteeljawscribe 17 January 2007

A simple clock served as one of the signatory icons of the (first) nuclear age. The “Doomsday Clock” of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists hearkened a reminder of impending destruction. First set at 7 minutes to Midnight when it appeared in 1947, the clock’s minute hand has moved closer to and fallen away from…

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R.I.P. for the Royal Navy?

BySteeljawscribe 17 January 200728 March 2010

Have been reading Ian Toll’s Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy during my recent travels. Very interesting read of not just the construction and operation of these ships, the most famous of course being Constitution, but also of the founding of the Navy as a cabinet-level service with a…