In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles like matchsticks, flattened crops, and dumped torrential floodwaters everywhere, leaving $8 billion in damage. That Category 5 storm’…
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Kathryn Bigelow’s new nuclear thriller, A House of Dynamite, has been criticized by some experts for being unrealistic, most notably because it portrays an unlikely scenario in which an adversary chooses to attack the United States with just a single nuclear-armed missile. Such a move would, of course, leave the vast American nuclear arsenal largely intact and so invite a devastating response that…
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Tesla was already facing a wave of pushback to a proposed $1 trillion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk before the world’s richest man suggested during a quarterly earnings call on October 22 that he needs the package to build a massive “robot army.” If Tesla hits performance targets, the record-setting compensation package would give Musk up to $1 trillion worth of Tesla stock over the…
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