The Philippines were ready. For days before the war began, the guns had been manned and the planes had stood alert
World Battlefronts: The Philippines Stand
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Nuclear Batteries
Nuclear-powered cars! airplanes! Fridges and freezers! In the heady days of the early 1950s — at the dawn of the civilian nuclear power age and President Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program — nuclear optimists imagined a world powered by tiny nuclear reactors. Today, in an era of climate change and energy insecurity, the nuclear industry is dusting off some of those old dreams.