Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] railroads’. The authors speculate that a ‘clean’ nuclear weapon might have been ‘an airburst of a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon, so as to minimize fallout effects but kill soldiers, truck drivers, and other logistics personnel in the area through immediate radiation effects.’ (p. 233) Fortunately, Nixon did not initiate a nuclear war, but he […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of the later payments, made at Thorpe’s request for ‘election expenses’, were considered by the Police to have been used to pay the hitman who tried to kill Thorpe’s former gay lover Norman Scott. Hayward denied any knowledge of this and was later awarded £50,000 in libel damages after the Sunday Telegraph accused him […]

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