sleeping through the alarm

Postol in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists shows that if an 800-kiloton weapon were detonated above Manhattan, the center of the blast would be four times the temperature of the sun, and, within “tens of minutes,” a firestorm will cover 90 to 150 square miles. .   . ..

notable deaths in 2019

Robert Morgenthau, who became the scourge of New York's white-collar criminals over three decades as the longest-serving Manhattan district attorney, died July 21 at the age of 99. ... He became Manhattan's chief prosecutor in 1975 and finally chose not...more . . ..

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