Both the United States and the European Union have launched major research programs with

The seed of a new European Union was planted in the Treaty of Brussels: a pledge of mutual

but the hereditary lords who controlled the Union did not agree and managed to ban such

his third State of the Union address.

Now, the State of the Union has been going on

And right now I'm in Union Station...

You can see how wild the G-forces are in this looping-coaster-simulation chart created by George Sidebotham, a mechanical engineering professor at the Cooper Union.

created by George Sidebotham, a mechanical engineering professor at the Cooper Union.

According to Human Rights Watch, Ukraine inherited a stockpile of cluster munitions after the breakup of the Soviet Union,

after the breakup of the Soviet Union,

When you study Nazi Germany, for example, or you study the Soviet Union, particularly under Stalin, and you're asking yourself, "Well, what are these perpetrators like? Forget about the victims; let's talk about the perpetrators.'"

This is a union presupposition too, that well, there's a bunch of things about you that are underdeveloped, and a lot of those things are because they're things you've avoided looking at because you don't want to look at them. There are parts of you you've avoided developing because it's hard for you to develop those parts. So, it's by virtual necessity that what you need is where you don't want to look because that's where you've kept it. When you see these stories of the hero journeying to unknown lands of terror and danger, that's what happens to you. It happens to you all the time. You're in this little safe space, like The Hobbit in the Shire, and then you know there's a great evil brewing somewhere, and you can no longer ignore it. So off you go into the land of terror and uncertainty, and better to go on purpose than accidentally, that's for sure, because at least you can be prepared. We also know that if you're going to face a threat, if you face it voluntarily, what happens is your body activates itself for exploration and mastery. But if you face it involuntarily, the same size threat, then you revert to prey mode and you're frozen, and that's way, way, way more stressful. It's way harder on your body."

At that time, the Soviet Union initiated

that could take on all of the advanced threats that the Soviet Union was likely to throw at us.

the Soviet Union had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba - perhaps the closest we've

union's going to have to go behind. And then we're going to have to get to