LAWRENCE — In American schools of the 1950s and ‘60s, students were taught to dive under their desks, crouch with their knees near their chests and to cover their heads with their hands. These “duck ...

Face it, we’re living in a world that, while anything but exceptional, is increasingly the exception to every rule. Only the other day, 93-year-old Noam Chomsky had something to say about that. Mind ...

I vaguely remember the “duck and cover” drills at my public grammar school. I do remember it was quite a hoot ducking under my table and, for a few moments, sticking out my tongue and exchanging funny ...

The way some companies handle the problems facing them can seem as likely to work as hiding under a large piece of furniture to escape harm from a nuclear blast I have a fondness for old-time radio ...

I first heard the phrase “security theater” a few years ago from Patrick Smith, an airline pilot who writes about his industry with an inside edge. His meaning—that much of post-9/11 airport security ...

"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment." — the late journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson With nuclear war saber-rattling today from Russia, China, Iran, ...