In exchange for the presidential suites at the Ritz and so on, the men holding our city keys have already opened our skies to all that may come.

Surreal as it may seem, we have clearly embarked on the path to self-annihilation.

The Cuban Missile Crisis pushed the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon and no footprint has yet been left on the Moon. Yet one of the more peculiar twists of the Cold War involved a physics lesson at a provincial grammar school.