On July 21, 1999, five commercial divers set out into the Deer Island outfall tunnel—a nine-and-a-half-mile dead end bored through the bedrock beneath Boston Harbor, with no light, no ventilation and no breathable air. Their job was to pull the...
In ‘Spies in the Sky' Patrick Norris responds to the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age – the launch of Sputnik 1 – with a review of the most important historical applications of space science for the benefit of the...
Based on exclusive interviews with senior Pentagon officials and previously unseen declassified documents, this is the definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency--the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and...