How Trump's new intel chief stacks up against predecessors

President Donald Trump's new acting director of national intelligence is facing criticism that he doesn't have the right experience for the job. Richard Grenell is the American ambassador to Germany and he's served as a spokesman in various roles in government. But he has little background in intelligence or in...

Review: `The Bomb' author writes of dangers of nuclear war

“The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War,” Simon & Schuster, by Fred Kaplan While we’re fretting about global warming, “The Bomb” gives us an even greater worry: nuclear war that would render much of the Earth a smoldering, radioactive wasteland...