*********************************
There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
*********************************
Kristie Mackrakis, professor in the School of History and Sociology, published an article entitled “The Cold War Is Over, But the Spying Continues.” Read full article in Newsweek.
Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who was released from a U.S. federal prison in North Carolina, leaves U.S. District court with his wife, Elaine Zeitz, in the Manhattan borough of New York, November 20. Although more spies are being freed, the enormous spy bureaucracies built during the Cold War show no sign of disappearing, writes Macrakis,