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What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe? Timely and thought-provoking, War at a Distance considers how those left on the home front register wars and wartime in their everyday lives, particularly when military conflict remains removed from immediate perception, available only through media forms. Looking back over two centuries, Mary Favret locates the origins of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era and describes how global military operations affected the British populace, as the nation's army and navy waged battles far from home for decades. She reveals that the literature and art produced in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries obsessively cultivated means for feeling as much as understanding such wars, and established forms still relevant today.

This article presents and explores three heretical thoughts regarding fusion and climate. First, the only way that fusion can contribute to midcentury power is by switching its goal from pure fusion, to fusion breeding. Doing so could lead to a sustainable, carbon free, environmentally and economically viable, midcentury infrastructure, with little or no proliferation risk, which could provide terawatts of power for the world. Second, while CO 2 input to the atmosphere may, at some point, become a concern to the earth’s climate, an Internet search shows that there is no evidence that we are anywhere near that point now and likely will not be before midcentury at the earliest. Third, those who insist on a nearly immediate end to CO 2 input into the atmosphere, are little different from others who have caused panics at various times in American history. The timing could be serendipitous; the time necessary to develop fusion breeding could well match up to the time when it is needed so as to avoid harm to the earth’s climate and/or depletion of finite energy resources.

This book revisits British Romanticism as a poetics of heightened attention. At the turn of the nineteenth century, as Britain was on the alert for a possible French invasion, attention became a phenomenon of widespread interest, one that aligned and distinguished an unusual range of fields (including medicine, aesthetics, theology, ethics, pedagogy, and politics). Within this wartime context, the Romantic aesthetic tradition appears as a response to a crisis in attention caused by demands on both soldiers and civilians to keep watch. Close formal readings of the poetry of Blake, Coleridge, Cowper, Keats, (Charlotte) Smith, and Wordsworth, in conversation with research into Enlightenment philosophy and political and military discourses, suggest the variety of forces competing for—or commanding—attention in the period. This new framework for interpreting Romanticism and its legacy illuminates what turns out to be an ongoing tradition of war literature that, rather than give testimony to or represent warfare, uses rhythm and verse to experiment with how and what we attend to during times of war.

The aim of this article is to point out the main difficulties that journalists of international information have to discuss about the subject of the cyber wars (e-wars) or cyber attacks, difficulties who obviously are transferred to the audiences. Indeed, new technologies of information and communication have developed their own destructive capability in the form of cyber-attacks. These can be applied to other conflicts or establish their own strategies for foggy actors ranging from superpowers to amateur hackers. As they openly admit personalities and institutions worldwide, its potential to cause big damages, their low cost, their usual anonymity, his involvement with State and corporate espionage, etc., cyber attacks have become a threat, which, without being bloody so far, is similar to nuclear war, only that much more confusing. For this reason, some experts and media speak of a new Cyber Cold War. All media international section reflects this diffuse fears although real and with unpredictable consequences. Journalists are facing a type of information easily thorny, with an ignored scope, frequently unknown agents, suspicious sources, campaigns of black propaganda, sophisticated technologies, etc. and which can however be very transcendent. It is easy to see, for example, that e-war, often affect relationships between countries, even among allies. For this reason, one of the most common consequences is alarmism, which in turn increases the objective difficulties of the subject. A partir de 1995, ETA da un giro muy importante a su estrategia terrorista. Coloca a los medios de comunicación y a los periodistas en su punto de mira, inicia su presión mediante asesinatos al Poder Judicial y comienza una serie negra de atentados contra representantes de partidos políticos democráticamente elegidos, fundamentalmente del Partido Popular y del Partido Socialista. Este giro estratégico tiene su vértice culminante el 12 de julio de 1997, fecha en la que después de mantener secuestrado durante dos días al concejal del PP en Ermua Miguel Ángel Blanco, acaba por asesinarlo. La muerte del edil popular marca un antes y después en el tratamiento periodístico de los atentados de ETA, por lo que podría ser considerado un ejemplo de lo que autores como Kepplinger y Habermeier (1995) denominan key event. Desde esa fecha ya nada va seguir igual y los medios de comunicación adoptan una posición activa en la lucha contra ETA. Este texto analiza ese antes y después del tratamiento de los atentados mortales de ETA tras el asesinato del concejal del Partido Popular, tomando en consideración para ello las aportaciones realizadas desde la Teoría del Framing.

The aim of this article is to point out the main difficulties that journalists of international information have to discuss about the subject of the cyber wars (e-wars) or cyber attacks, difficulties who obviously are transferred to the audiences. Indeed, new technologies of information and communication have developed their own destructive capability in the form of cyber-attacks. These can be applied to other conflicts or establish their own strategies for foggy actors ranging from superpowers to amateur hackers. As they openly admit personalities and institutions worldwide, its potential to cause big damages, their low cost, their usual anonymity, his involvement with State and corporate espionage, etc., cyber attacks have become a threat, which, without being bloody so far, is similar to nuclear war, only that much more confusing. For this reason, some experts and media speak of a new Cyber Cold War. All media international section reflects this diffuse fears although real and with unpredictable consequences. Journalists are facing a type of information easily thorny, with an ignored scope, frequently unknown agents, suspicious sources, campaigns of black propaganda, sophisticated technologies, etc. and which can however be very transcendent. It is easy to see, for example, that e-war, often affect relationships between countries, even among allies. For this reason, one of the most common consequences is alarmism, which in turn increases the objective difficulties of the subject. El objetivo de este artículo es señalar las principales dificultades con se encuentran los periodistas de información internacional al tratar el tema de las ciberguerras o los ciberataques, dificultades que obviamente se trasladan a las audiencias. Las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación han desarrollado, en efecto, su propia capacidad destructiva en forma de ciberataques. Estos pueden ser aplicados a otros conflictos existentes o establecer sus propias estrategias por actores brumosos que incluyen desde superpotencias hasta hackers aficionados. Tal como admiten abiertamente personalidades e instituciones mundiales, su potencialidad para causar grandes daños, su escaso coste, su  anonimato habitual, su implicación con el espionaje estatal y empresarial, etc., han convertido los ciberataques en una amenaza, que, sin ser sangrienta hasta ahora, es parecida a la nuclear, solo que mucho más confusa. Por esta razón, algunos expertos y medios hablan de una nueva Ciberguerra Fría. La sección de Internacional de todos los medios refleja este temor difuso aunque real y de consecuencias imprevisibles. Los periodistas se enfrentan a un tipo de información fácilmente espinoso, de alcance ignorado, con agentes con frecuencia desconocidos, fuentes sospechosas, campañas de intoxicación, tecnologías sofisticadas, etc. y que sin embargo puede ser muy trascendente. Es fácil constatar, por ejemplo, que la ciberguerra incide abiertamente en las relaciones entre países, incluso entre países aliados. Por esto, una de las consecuencias más corrientes es el alarmismo, que a su vez acrecienta las dificultades objetivas propias del tema.

A fictional librarian on the verge of retirement tells his replacement as the chair of a library’s occupational health and safety committee what to expect. Included are comments on matters including the library’s security plan, workplace violence, alarmism, apathy, leaky plumbing, faulty heating and ventilation systems, first aid, physical fitness, disasters, and bomb threats. The retiring librarian tells his young colleague that the committee’s work will never come to an end.

Among other things, Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, \"has forcefully proclaimed that 'We do not need these weapons.'\" But even if Mr. Khamenei turns out to be lying and Iran does develop an arsenal, the Islamic republic, according to Mr. Mueller, will discover \"that the bombs are essentially useless and a very considerable waste of money and effort.\" The argument of Mr. Mueller's book reaches self-parody when he argues that \"massive exaggerations of the physical effects of nuclear weapons have been very much the rule\" throughout the nuclear age.