It was a little after 3:00 a.m. on July 2, 1978 when those aboard the S.S. America realized the voyage was doomed. Things had gotten off to an uneasy start nine hours before, when some 900 passengers assembled at Manhattan’s West 54th Street pier and found a problem with the ...read more

Nobody knew who tipped them off, but the reporters were everywhere. They’d come from the Herald Tribune, TheNew York Sun and TheNew York Times; from the Associated Press, the United Press and the International News Service, too. On that balmy Monday, they clustered below the ...read more

Were atomic fallout shelters really designed to protect citizens from a nuclear attack? Or were they created to appease fears about what would happen if the Soviets dropped "the big one"? At the height of the Cold War, the government was flailing to construct a viable civil ...read more