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You always hear about the 'nuclear football.' Here's the behind-the-scenes story

The “nuclear football” is a bulky briefcase that contains atomic war plans and enables the president to transmit nuclear orders to the Pentagon

The Independent UK

Step inside the world's only nuclear-powered passenger ship — built in 1959

The Nuclear Ship Savannah offers a snapshot of a nuclear future that never quite came to pass.

WEKU

Irishwoman whose weather report of 'storm' led to key delay of D-Day in WWII turns 100

One of her duties from Europe’s most westerly weather station included making hourly reports from the lighthouse - which were being sent to London.

Irish Mirror

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Oliver Stone: How he stopped worrying and learned to love nuclear

Film director says risk of nuclear contamination from Ukraine war is less threatening to the planet than fossil fuels.

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At Normandy D-Day celebrations, echoes of Ukraine's looming fight

There are no Ukrainian troops present at this year's commemorations of the 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy, which launched the Allied invasion of Europe and led to the end of World War II

The Independent UK

The first debt ceiling fight was in 1953. It looked almost exactly like the one today

Debt ceiling dramas have been going on a long time. The first one happened exactly 70 years ago. President Eisenhower asked Congress for an extra $15 billion and the Senate said, "No dice."

WEKU

Experts: New Pentagon stats "stunning"

Military-industrial complex uses unprecedented influence to corrupt D.C. and starve funding for everything else

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Biden's coronation no-show is no snub – more telling is whom he sends to King Charles' big day

The fact that first lady Jill Biden, but not her husband, President Joe Biden, will be attending King Charles III’s coronation on May 6, 2023, has not gone down too well with sections of the U.K. press. A “royal snub,” screamed headlines, while commentators grumbled about “Irish Joe” and his…

The Conversation

As Biden announces his re-election bid, the ghosts of Vietnam still haunt him on Ukraine

In 2009, shortly after his inauguration, Barack Obama undertook an intensive policy review to assess the desirability of a military “surge” in Afghanistan.

The Conversation

Look back at some of Chicago’s other Democratic National Conventions

The list famous figures who have been nominated in Chicago is impressive — including many who did not win.

Chicago Sun-Times

Commentary: Eisenhower's misgivings about military power still ring true

As an orator, Dwight D. Eisenhower was not in the same league with Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt. His roster of memorable speeches numbers a grand total of two, a paltry total for someone who served eight years as U.S. president. Yet some five decades after his death, those two…

Tribune News Service

Ayrshire's Culzean Castle named among Europe's 'most beautiful'

A leading travel guide has heaped praise on one of Ayrshire's jewels.

Daily Record

Vet alarmed over bloated Pentagon budget

The military-industrial-congressional complex seizes on "new Cold War" with Russia and China

Salon

Birchers review: how the Republican far right gave us Trump and DeSantis

Matthew Dallek’s fast-paced and well-researched history shows how the John Birch Society rose, raved and never went away

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‘Sincerely Arnold Palmer’ a stroll down memory lane for fans of The King

ORLANDO, Fla. — A trip to Bay Hill Club & Lodge inevitably becomes a walk down memory lane for Arnie’s Army.

Daily Mirror

Remains of four US presidents to be fired into space as a 'cosmic time capsule'

DNA from George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan will be fired into space aboard the Enterprise Flight as part of a new scheme

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Martin Luther King Jr.’s writings should spur a national discussion on militarism

As another observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday passed and we once again celebrate Black History Month, I’m still haunted by Jonathan Eig’s recent op-ed, “We have lost sight of MLK’s radical vision.” He argues that we have romanticized King’s message and “lost sight of his radical…

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All the U.S. presidents who played golf, including Joe Biden, Donald Trump

Sixteen of the last 19 U.S. presidents played golf as a hobby.

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Today in Supreme Court History: January 20, 1953

1/20/1953: President Eisenhower takes the inaugural oath on January 20. He would make five appointments to the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Justices John Marshall Harlan II, William J. Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker, and Potter Stewart.

Tribune News Service

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Rocky road ahead for McCarthy

For the past two years, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi has conducted a political science class in how to manage the House of Representatives with a bare four-seat majority.

The Conversation

Veterans have fought in wars – and fought against them

If former President Donald Trump had his way, the nation would have celebrated the centennial of the World War I armistice with a massive military parade in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 11, 2018.

Salon

GOP: No longer a legit political party

Republicans' only unifying agenda is hate, fear and groveling to billionaires. They want to rule, but not govern

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Young people need to fight for Social Security — now more than ever

One almost has to admire Republicans for the tenacity and determination with which they keep coming up with new ideas for hobbling Social Security.

Daily Mirror

Queen met all 14 US Presidents during her reign apart from one - and overlooked blunders

During her incredible 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II shared recipes with Dwight D. Eisenhower and poked fun at George W. Bush - but there was one President she never came face to face with

Evening Standard

How many US presidents has the Queen met?

Harry Truman was the first president she met, while Joe Biden was the last

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