Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima : an Ironic Comparison

The Secrecy of Pearl Harbor

Closing the Book on Pearl Harbor

Recent attempts to resuscitate well-worn conspiracy theories concerning the Pearl Harbor attack are based on selective reading of documentary evidence and ignore conclusive, recently declassified materials which show that JN-25 and other Japanese naval codes were not being read by U. S. Navy codebreakers prior to the Japanese attack.

Probabilistic Warnings in National Security Crises: Pearl Harbor Revisited

Imagine a situation where a group of adversaries is preparing an attack on the United States or U.S. interests. An intelligence analyst has observed some signals, but the situation is rapidly changing. The analyst faces the decision to alert a principal decision maker that an attack is imminent, or to wait until more is known about the situation. This warning decision is based on the analyst's ...

Is there an ironic tone of voice?

Research on nonverbal vocal cues and verbal irony has often relied on the concept of an ironic tone of voice. Here we provide acoustic analysis and experimental evidence that this notion is oversimplified and misguided. Acoustic analyses of spontaneous ironic speech extracted from talk radio shows, both ambiguous and unambiguous in written form, revealed only a difference in amplitude variabili...

Bacterial Metabolism, Aromatic Biodegradation, and Lignin Biogeochemistry in Sediment Cores from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii