William Langewiesche Concepts

The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era

by Craig Nelson · 25 Mar 2014 · 684pp · 188,584 words

ten suns was replaced by an ever-growing darkness, as dust thrown up by the blast combined with smoke from the hurricane of fire. Journalist William Langewiesche: “There is a moment of calm. The fireball is no longer visible, but it is still extremely hot, and it is vigorously rising into the

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Shachtman. The FBI-KGB War. New York: Random House, 1986. Lang, Daniel. “A Reporter at Large: The Top Top Secret.” New Yorker, October 27, 1945. Langewiesche, William. The Atomic Bazaar. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Lanouette, William, with Bela Silard. Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the

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early life of, 32, 38, 40 Irène Curie’s career and, 49, 53 marriage with Jeanne, 44–46, 48–49 Langevin-Joliot, Hélène, 49 Langewiesche, William, 213 Lanouette, William, 122 Larionov, Nikolay, 255 Laurence, William, 189, 204, 217–18 Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 174, 369 atomic bomb and, 199, 206, 207, 261 big science

Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda

by John Mueller · 1 Nov 2009 · 465pp · 124,074 words

—Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey—and elsewhere in the world where you could have 20 or 30 countries close to nuclear weapons.”11 In similar vein, William Langewiesche has concluded that we have passed “the point of no return” on weapons proliferation to established states. That is, the nuclear genie is out of

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due to the hostility—and bribery—of the nuclear nations, but even without that, the Canadian case seems to have had wide and general relevance. William Langewiesche may be right that quite a few states—even quite a few poor ones now—do possess the technical and economic capacity to obtain nuclear

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be “child’s play.” But there are those who beg to differ. Atomic scientists, perhaps laboring under the concern, in the words of investigative journalist William Langewiesche, that “a declaration of safety can at any time be proved spectacularly wrong,” have been comparatively restrained in cataloguing the difficulties terrorists would face in

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with such scary-sounding, if somewhat elusive, prognostications about nuclear terrorism often come out seeming like they more or less agree. In his Atomic Bazaar, William Langewiesche spends a great deal of time and effort assessing the process by means of which a terrorist group could come up with a bomb. Unlike

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the MIRV Era.” World Politics 24(2) January: 221–41. Langer, Gary. 2002. “Trust in Government … to Do What?” Public Perspective July/August: 7–10. Langewiesche, William. 2007. The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Lapp, Ralph E. 1949. Must We Hide? Cambridge, MA

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–79. ______. 2008. “The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence.” Nonproliferation Review 15(3) November: 421–39. Winslow, Art. 2007. “Chain Reactions.” Review of The Atomic Bazaar, by William Langewiesche. Los Angeles Times 20 May. Wirz, Christoph, and Emmanuel Egger. 2005. “Use of Nuclear and Radiological Weapons by Terrorists?” International Review of the Red Cross

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, 57 Krauthammer, Charles, Arab world, 261n.1, 261n.4 Kremlin, 246n.15, 247n.22 Kristof, Nicholas, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, 181 Kristol, William, 261n.4 Langewiesche, William Atomic Bazaar, 183, 268n.5 book jacket flap, 268n.5 constructing bomb, 111, 173 obtaining nuclear weapons, 105 odds against terrorists, 184 passed

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

by Tim Harford · 3 Oct 2016 · 349pp · 95,972 words

if for an aborted landing. And no wonder he felt so helpless at the plane’s controls. • • • The Air France pilots “were hideously incompetent,” says William Langewiesche, a writer and professional pilot.2 And Langewiesche thought he knew why. He argued persuasively in the pages of Vanity Fair that the pilots simply

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Luther King, Jr.: Taylor Branch, David Garrow, and Stephen Oates. On Bezos, Rommel, and Stirling: Virginia Cowles, David Fraser, and Brad Stone. On Flight 447: William Langewiesche, Jeff Wise, and the staff of 99% Invisible. On Hans Monderman: Tom Vanderbilt. On being human: Dan Ariely, Brian Christian, Hanna Rosin, and Muzafer Sherif

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Really Happened Aboard Air France 447,” Popular Mechanics, December 6, 2011, http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a3115/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877/; William Langewiesche, “The Human Factor,” Vanity Fair, October 2014, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash; “Air France Flight 447 and

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25, 2015; “Children of the Magenta,” 99% Invisible (podcast), June 23, 2015, http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magenta-automation-paradox-pt-1/. 2. William Langewiesche, speaking on “Children of the Magenta,” 99% Invisible (podcast), http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magenta-automation-paradox-pt-1/. 3. Robert Charette, “Automated

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Kuperman, Bob, 72 Kwan, Julianne, 18 Kyocera Group, 64–65, 67–69, 71, 79, 82, 86 Lactobacillus sakei, 209 Laico, Fred, 95n Langer, Ellen, 19 Langewiesche, William, 182–83 Lasseter, John, 87, 88 Le Corbusier, 61–63, 65, 67, 72 Lechtman, Heather, 79 Lennon, John, 25 Lettvin, Jerry, 75, 76 Levitin, Daniel

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

by Richard Beck · 2 Sep 2024 · 715pp · 212,449 words

. Too much depended, psychologically, on the story of the firefighters’ heroism to allow anyone to chisel away at it. In the second half of 2002, William Langewiesche, an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic Monthly, published a series of articles based on months spent reporting from the Ground Zero cleanup site. Though

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-duty.html. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 25 “Common Valor,” Wall Street Journal, Sept. 14, 2001, www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000432905762754757. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 26 William Langewiesche, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center (New York: North Point Press, 2002), 160–61. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 27 David Carr, “Rebutting a Claim

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Klein, Ezra, 364, 369 Kristof, Nicholas, 101 Kristol, William, 49–50 Kuznets, Simon, 266–67 Kyle, Chris, 66–69, 75, 495 L Lanchester, John, xxvii Langewiesche, William, 20 Lanza, Adam, 459 Last of the Mohicans, The, 29–30 Lee, Alexander, 289–90 Lee, Barbara, 374–75 Levin, Carl, 34, 186–87 Levin

Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge

by Ian Kumekawa · 6 May 2025 · 422pp · 112,638 words

of Inquiry into Shipping, Report (London: HMSO, 1970) (Cmnd. 4337), 51. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 32 The system of flags of convenience, in the journalist William Langewiesche’s words, “constitutes an exact reversal of sovereignty’s intent, and a perfect mockery of national conceits. It is free enterprise at its freest

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.” William Langewiesche, “Anarchy at Sea,” The Atlantic, September 2003. See also Langewiesche, The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime (New York: North Point Press,

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NOTE REFERENCE 28 Ibid. “Past Sales,” Solution Strategists, www.solutionstrat.com; “Alan: Offshore Supply Ship IMO 7816379,” MarineTraffic.com, www.marinetraffic.com. On Bhangavar, see William Langewiesche, The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime (New York: North Point Press, 2004). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 29 Chris Foote, “Breaking Bad

The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

by Nicholas Carr · 28 Sep 2014 · 308pp · 84,713 words

passenger planes in the late 1970s.10 What really set the A320 apart—and made it, in the words of the American writer and pilot William Langewiesche, “the most audacious civil airplane since the Wright brothers’ Flyer”11—was its digital fly-by-wire system. Before the A320 arrived, commercial planes still

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expressed misgivings about his company’s design philosophy. “Sometimes I wonder if we made an airplane that is too easy to fly,” he said to William Langewiesche, the writer, during an interview in Toulouse, where Airbus has its headquarters. “Because in a difficult airplane the crews may stay more alert.” He went

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’s work, see Lane E. Wallace, Airborne Trailblazer: Two Decades with NASA Langley’s 737 Flying Laboratory (Washington, D.C.: NASA History Office, 1994). 11.William Langewiesche, Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the “Miracle” on the Hudson (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009), 103. 12.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind

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Mental Canvas: A Tool for Conceptual Architectural Design and Analysis,” in Proceedings of the Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (2007), 201–210. 30.William Langewiesche, Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the “Miracle” on the Hudson (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009), 102. 31.Lee, “Human Factors and Ergonomics

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–14 strife, 37, 175 see also jobs; work Labor and Monopoly Capital (Braverman), 109–10 Labor Department, U.S., 66 labor unions, 25, 37, 59 Langewiesche, William, 50–51, 170 language, 82, 121, 150 Latour, Bruno, 204, 208 lawn mowers, robotic, 185 lawyers, law, 12, 116–17, 120, 123, 166 learning, 72

Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making

by David Rothkopf · 18 Mar 2008 · 535pp · 158,863 words

fates of nations. Many of the headlines and much of the attention in the arms business are associated with the most expensive or destructive weapons. William Langewiesche’s The Atomic Bazaar, for example, chronicles one of the most destabilizing, power-shifting phenomena in global security: the acquisition by poor countries of nuclear

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Top 100,” www.defensenews.com. 214 SIPRI also has an Arms Transfers Project “The Arms Transfers Project,” www.sipri.org/contents/armstrad/. 216 William Langewiesche’s The Atomic Bazaar William Langewiesche, The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007). 216 Bill Clinton once characterized nuclear weapons

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, Bernard Kraay, Aart Kravis, Henry Krišto, Borjana Krugman, Paul Kryshtanovskaya, Olga Kuczynski, Pedro-Pablo Lagardère, Arnaud Lagos Weber, Ricardo Lake, Anthony Lampert, Eddie Lamy, Pascal Langewiesche, William Langone, Kenneth Larson, Adm. Chuck Lasch, Christopher Lay, Ken Leape, James Lebed, Gen. Aleksandr Lee Kuan Yew Lehman, John Leman, Patrick Le Pen, Jean-Marie

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

by Ian Urbina · 19 Aug 2019

Foundation, OCEANUSLive, FISH-i Africa, Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation, Human Rights Watch, and Trygg Mat Tracking. The title of my book is a nod to William Langewiesche’s singularly insightful work, published in 2004, called The Outlaw Sea, about mayhem on the oceans involving merchant and passenger ships in particular. I share

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Affairs,” Oct. 26, 2016, transcript; Susan Krashinsky, “Clover Leaf Website Will Let Consumers Track the Source of Their Fish,” Globe and Mail, Oct. 3, 2016; William Langewiesche, “Slaves Without Chains,” Vanity Fair, Jan. 2016; Erik Larson, “Lawsuit Aimed at Products Where Forced Labour Used; Lawyers Hope to Push Major Firms to Better

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. 1 (2006): 35–75. Lamvik, Gunnar M. “The Filipino Seafarer: A Life Between Sacrifice and Shopping.” PhD diss., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002. Langewiesche, William. The Outlaw Sea: Chaos and Crime on the World’s Oceans. London: Granta Books, 2005. Lanier, Frank. Jack Tar and the Baboon Watch: A Guide

Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson

by William Langewiesche · 10 Nov 2009 · 175pp · 54,028 words

PENGUIN BOOKS FLY BY WIRE William Langewiesche is an author and journalist. He is currently Vanity Fair’s international correspondent, having made his name writing for Atlantic Monthly. His strong, evocative prose

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who have secured a place at the centre of contemporary American literature, as Tom Wolfe and The New Journalism did in the sixties. ALSO BY WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE Cutting for Sign Sahara Unveiled Aloft American Ground The Outlaw Sea The Atomic Bazaar FLY BY WIRE The Geese, The Glide, The ‘Miracle’ on the

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Hudson WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street

Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard--America's First Spaceman

by Neal Thompson · 2 Jan 2004 · 577pp · 171,126 words

93, “IN THE WRONG DIRECTION”: Shepard’s flight training records. page 94, “UNSAFE FOR SOLO”: Ibid. page 94, “If you are looking for perfect safety . . .”: William Langewiesche, Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight (New York: Vintage Books, 1999), p. 14. page 95, hemorrhaging of grease monkeys: Author interview with Tazewell Shepard

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, Gene. Failure Is Not an Option. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Landwirth, Henri, with J. P. Hendricks. Gift of Life. Self-published, privately released, 1996. Langewiesche, William. Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight. New York: Vintage Books, 1999. Langewiesche, Wolfgang. Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying. New