Listening to Trump, it was hard not to think of similar “America Firsters” from 75 years past who somehow thought oceans could still protect America from the dangers of the wider world. . Then the bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, German submarines began sinking American ships, and the nation..…

Heisenberg admired America’s technical and industrial ability, yet, “even given their huge superiority in terms of scientists, technicians, and materials, America couldn’t produce the bomb before the war with Germany had ended.” The Germans, on the other hand, “decided that the..…