Firebombs Over Tokyo
America's 1945 attack on Japan's capital remains undeservedly obscure alongside Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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America's 1945 attack on Japan's capital remains undeservedly obscure alongside Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The new science of artificial societies suggests that real ones are both more predictable and more surprising than we thought. Growing long-vanished civilizations and modern-day genocides on computers will probably never enable us to foresee the future in detail—but we might learn to anticipate the kinds of events that lie ahead, and where to look for interventions that might work
Even before the September 11 attacks heightened our fears of bio-terrorism, a biologist came up with a sensible strategy for coping with one of the most fearsome possibilities
When we grow old, we do not depend directly on our own children. Instead, we depend on other people's children.
