COSMIC BEATS
A disjointed, globe-spanning story this month, that takes in the island of Puerto Rico, the University of Milwaukee, spinning neutron stars at the edge of the galaxy, and your PC, via James Bond and a Battlefield 4 multiplayer map.
Where to start? Well, in the late 1950s, nuclear missiles re-entering the atmosphere as part of a Soviet attack were considered to be a bit of a worry. The missiles dropped radar-reflective decoys behind them, and nobody knew enough about the upper levels of the atmosphere to tell the difference between these dummies and the real warheads coming in hot.
