In 1962, The New Yorker published Rachel Carson’s articles on the side effects of pesticides. Today the magazine publishes science journalism by Elizabeth Kolbert, who reports on climate change.
Bob Peurifoy and Bill Stevens were both engineers at Sandia National Laboratories. Both men were shocked when they realized how vulnerable the nation’s nuclear weapons were to accidents.
Five months into the Korean War, American troops found themselves surrounded by Chinese troops, and at risk of annihilation in the frozen Chosin Reservior.
U.S. Marine veterans of the Battle of Chosin during the Korean War recall their efforts to hold the west side of the reservoir during a second night of attacks.
