Fighting the Cold War from Huntington Beach

Data Science, Fake News, Russians…all that stuff

MIRV warheads raining down on Kwajalein Atoll Photo: David James Paquin (attributed) wiki commons

Surf City, USA 1984

I was 21 years-old with only a vague idea of what I wanted to do with my life, except go to graduate school. But I needed some money and heard that work was good for you. Reagan was going to spend the Soviet Union into the Stone Age, so there was a boom in hiring…