Updates
November 17, 2008
On October 21, slashdot (an online news aggregator) covered the appearance of my article, "Soaring, Cryptography and Nuclear Weapons," and produced an avalanche of traffic on our web site. This month, we had 9,637 visitors and 13,398 page views, compared to 441 visitors and 981 page views the previous month. This increase was similar to what we saw in April, when slashdot covered the launch of the site. Getting "slashdotted" is great!
If you haven't yet read the paper, there are links to both PDF and HTML versions in the left margin of our web site under the picture of a glider. It's gotten great reviews and I think you'll enjoy it since it takes a non-threatening approach to what can be a heavy topic.
On November 14, IEEE Spectrum Online also mentioned our project for the second time -- and equally important, provided a link to the web site. The IEEE is the world's largest electrical engineering professional society, with close to 500,000 members. Click here to read the article.
On November 10, Business Week had an article, "The Russia-Georgia War revisited," which supports evidence presented in earlier emails in this series: "In a hard-hitting television documentary, BBC journalist Tim Whewell visited South Ossetia to find out what really happened during the war. Eyewitnesses interviewed by Whewell allege that Georgian tanks and artillery deliberately fired on civilian apartments, and even attacked refugees attempting to flee the conflict. The BBC notes that if these allegations are true, such actions constitute war crimes and a violation of the Geneva Convention. Georgia's President Saakashvilli has rejected the allegations. But the BBC isn't the only western voice now questioning the honesty of Georgian accounts." Click here to read the rest of the article.
With thanks for your support and wishing you all a good Thanksgiving.
Martin
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Martin Hellman
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
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