China (mostky) buys influence. Russia is carrying on the Cold War program of funding every dissident/extreme group, no matter the ideology. Even pre-internet, they were almost desperate in their atte… (View Post)

Last time I went, years ago, there vast majority of the crowd were… ordinary people playing dress up, as you say. Similar to Henley, probably. But since I row, I’m usually in one of the boat clubs (n… (View Post)

It's acknowledge in all the semi-serious histories. The post war stuff is actually more screwed up. A lot of authors followed the line that the UK was blundering around, trying to get an H Bomb … (View Post)

FPT What Heisenberg *ass*umed, seems to be that by the time physical assembly had happened, the nuclear reaction would be done. I'd recommend https://nuclearweaponarchive.org - it has quite a bi… (View Post)

Incidentally, Orange Herald was a classic airburst- (View Post)