Why do I feel that the United States is unlikely to decline?. Content Warning.
In 1945, just after Nazi Germany surrendered, the Americans did something significant—they sent people around the world to find German scientists. This operation was later called "Operation Paperclip." The name sounds boring, but what they did was ruthless: they packed up more than a thousand German rocket experts, physicists, and chemists and brought them to the United States. Among them was Wernher von Braun, who would later help America land on the moon.
