Just about all of us use computers or calculators every day without ever giving much thought to how they work. In his inimitable breezy style, Clive "Max" Maxfield, with co-author Alvin Brown, looks ...
On Feb. 25, 1991, during the first Gulf War, a Scud missile hit U.S. Army barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 U.S. soldiers. The barracks was defended by a Patriot missile defense system, ...