August 10, 2025 ‘We had no idea of what it would become’: How Keep Calm and Carry On became a divisive 21st-Century phenomenon ‘We had no idea of what it would become’ How Keep Calm and Carry On became a divisive 21st-Century phenomenon
goodshit Body of Secrets by James Bamford is an investigative history of the NSA that argues the agency became one of the most powerful and least understood institutions in the U.S. national-security system. Its core idea is that signals intelligence has shaped major Cold War and post–Cold War events, often with very little public oversight.
