Tag Archives: USSR

Shock therapy

08-10-02 – 11:57:pm

The NYT offers a curious meditation on the historical parallels between the collapse of the USSR (when “shock therapy” was the order of the day) and the US’s current difficulties:
Just in time:
“The time of domination by one economy and one currency has been consigned to the past once and for all,” Medvedev said during a [...]

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Skyhooks

08-08-07 – 08:37:am

Short history of the recent military/intelligence uses of balloons, starting with the Imperial Japanese Army’s incipient use of the jet stream to deliver fusen bakudan (”balloon bombs”) to the US.
Project MOGUL was first conceived by Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University, NY, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA. Dr. Ewing had conducted considerable research for [...]

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