For example, not adequately capturing the diffusion of civil wars over space [14] or the localized nature of attacks [15] would significantly lower the relevance of models to analysts.
The Bronze Age crossbar wheel found in the XIX century in Mercurago (Italy) is an amazing example of the technical innovations stimulated by the diffusion of horse draught war chariots in Europe across the third and second millennium B.C.
For decades, McConnell poured federal money into the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a Cold War-era nuclear power relic that had become technologically obsolete by the 1980s.
The technology used at both plants, gaseous diffusion, was developed during World War II, to make the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
A third cold-war-era gaseous diffusion plant, at Oak Ridge, Tenn., was shut by the government in 1985.
Cowen (2011) has in turn approached stagnation as an outcome of the exhaustion of a significant set of "low-hanging fruits" reaped in recent history, namely one-off supply-side opportunities associated with post-war reconstruction; trade opening; diffusion of new technologies in power, transport, and communications; and educational attainments, among others.
Paducah uses gaseous diffusion technology, which was developed during World War II to make the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
Despite two draining wars, sluggish growth and a diffusion of power from the West to China and the "rising rest," a combination of economic resilience and military superiority will keep the United States at or near the top for decades.
As the Cold War-era fear of Communist diffusion was irrelevant after 1991, American policymakers had a choice between normalizing relations with Cuba or clamping down even more aggressively on the regime in the hope that greater isolation at a time of weakness would trigger a democratic overthrow.
Next up, in the less internationally acclaimed but nonetheless flourishing environs of John Robb's Louder Than War blog, was Colin B Morton's combatative diffusion of the sadness of Captain Beefheart's death through a myriad of different cultural capillaries.
